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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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"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience."
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"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."
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"Dean Martin is one of my heroes."
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"Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes."
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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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"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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"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
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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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"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
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"I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes."
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"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
Attitude
"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired."
Thought
"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns."
Music
"And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth."
Day
"I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues."
Law
"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
Religion
"If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way."
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"For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death."
Death
"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
Time
"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."
Heroes
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