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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. Jean-Michel Basquiat | top
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My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. Bono | top
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Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God. Silvia Cartwright | top
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My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. Tom Chapin | top
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis | top
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. Christopher Dawson | top
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. Laura Dern | top
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It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes. Richard Donner | top
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Heroes can be sweet. Oriana Fallaci | top
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But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo. Stephen Fry | top
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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region. Orrin Hatch | top
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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. Aldous Huxley | top
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With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. Phil Keoghan | top
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What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me. William Kraft | top
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Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. Bernard Malamud | top
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Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. Mickey Mantle | top
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. H. L. Mencken | top
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Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable. Craig T. Nelson | top
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Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse. John Osborne | top
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. Salvatore Quasimodo | top
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No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. Jon Ronson | top
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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength. Robert Shea | top
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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal. Norman Spinrad | top
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We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times. Bob Taft | top
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The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. John Thorn | top
