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- Nov 07, 2020
Heroes Quotes
Reflections on the people we admire most.
Several lines here come from actors naming the performers who shaped their own careers, a shorthand for admiration built across a working life. Others step back and consider the idea more broadly, calling interest in heroes something close to universal. Pair this with Great quotes for related themes.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met two of my movie heroes. I met Tom Hanks, and I met Steven Spielberg. Oh and Quentin Tarantino.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
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- Nov 07, 2020