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Heroism Quotes
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
"A hero is someone we can admire without apology."
"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."
"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
"Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism."
"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."
"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."
"It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes."
"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
"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."
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes."
"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."
"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
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