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Heroism Quotes
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
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"Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again. She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind."
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"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
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"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
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"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."
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"You will never become a hero if you keep waiting for someone else to bring a cape for you."
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"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older."
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"My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on."
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"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."
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"Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes."
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"Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan."
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"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
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"We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol."
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"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
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"I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running, not staying, but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield."
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"Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism."
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"I think you're my hero, ' she said. Only half - kidding.He stared at her, the picture of incredulity. 'Most people, ' he said, 'think I am a very bad man.'She studied his eyes to try to find out if that bothered him. He didn't seem bothered by them. He seemed discomfited by her. 'Well, ' she said at last, 'maybe you're a very good dragon."
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"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."
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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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"We put on our best clothes and die like heroes."
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"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
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"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
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"He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been at each other's throats, before everything had gone wrong. He wondered if there was a point where they realized they weren't going to make it, weren't going to beat those long odds--that in the legend that would follow, they were going to be the nameless people that failed."
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"The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point, to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence."
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"It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes."
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"A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve."
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"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."
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