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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do… — J. Michael Straczynski
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau
I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want… — Josh Turner
So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields,… — Tina Turner
What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been… — Scott Walker
My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer. — Scott Walker
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned… — Walt Whitman
Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things… — Harvey Weinstein
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions,… — Walt Whitman
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy… — Victoria Woodhull
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability… — Steve Wozniak
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' — Steven Wright
I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.… — Colm Toibin
The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of… — Ayn Rand
You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment… — Peter Ackroyd
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At… — Mervyn Peake
He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that… — Hermann Hesse
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of… — John Irving
...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood. — Kim Edwards

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