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The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic... -- Cressida Cowell
Walt Disney was my great hero. -- Stanislav Grof
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. -- Leonard Cohen
All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes. -- Jennifer McMahon
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. -- Peter S. Beagle
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. -- Peter Eisenman
Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero. -- Will McDonough
You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem. -- Michael Grant
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas. -- Matthew Rhys
I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer, -- Valentino Garavani
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found. -- Joseph Campbell
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'. -- Stephen Fry
I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting. -- Maynard Jackson
I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board. -- Sam Worthington
A great brand starts with a hero product. -- Andy Dunn
What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair. -- Roy Thompson
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. -- Horace
If great content is the hero, then banners are the villain. -- Michael Brenner
What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair. -- David Mallet
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. -- Thomas Carlyle
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs? -- Nikolai Gogol
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification. -- Dalia Mogahed
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. -- Nik Wallenda
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. -- Vivian Campbell
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I've always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet. -- Tim Curry
Love is the hero of all emotions. My love for you is a superhero, and it looks great hidden behind a mask. -- Jarod Kintz
Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it. -- Matthew McConaughey
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man. -- George Foreman
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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all. -- D. H. Lawrence
You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. -- Edmund Hillary
The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story? -- Erin Morgenstern
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete. -- Joseph Addison
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. -- Kit Carson
There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul! -- Thomas Carlyle
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. -- Felix Adler
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
After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. -- Ron Chernow
Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it. -- Hugh Laurie

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