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"I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long."
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"And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns."
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"No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk."
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"We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to."
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"Dean Martin is one of my heroes."
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"We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by."
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"I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around."I feel so wanted. Thanks."
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"Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes."
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"The world doesn't make any heroes anymore."
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"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience."
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"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
Society
"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."
Ethics
"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it."
Wisdom
"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."
Nature
"Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.''Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl."
Change
"Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual."
Humor
"Tiffany jumped when she saw a balloon sail up above the trees, catch the wind, and swoop away, but it turned out to be just a balloon and not a lump of excess Brian. She could tell this because it was followed by a long scream of rage mixed with a roar of complaint: "AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON! which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this."
Parenting
"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."
Purpose
"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
Writing
"On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed."
Religion
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