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My Hero Quotes (page 5)

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work. Ricky Gervais
My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple. John Lennon
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong. Frank Miller
Pharrell Williams quote: "My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark."
My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark. Pharrell Williams
Sessue Hayakawa quote: "My one ambition is to play a hero."
My one ambition is to play a hero. Sessue Hayakawa
My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty. Frances O'Grady
Zhang Yimou quote: "HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the..."
HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism. Zhang Yimou
Leonard Cohen quote: "My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca."
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. Leonard Cohen
My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. Tom Chapin
Greta Scacchi quote: "My father was absent and he was a hero to me."
My father was absent and he was a hero to me. Greta Scacchi
Judd Nelson quote: "Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom..."
Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. Judd Nelson
My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius. Hank Azaria
Song of myself. With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them. Vivas to those who have fail'd! And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea! And to those... Walt Whitman
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster. Ryan Giggs
In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes. Stephen Ambrose

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