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  • My real heroes have always been sportswriters. -- Dan Jenkins
  • Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes. -- Kate Winslet
  • The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles. -- Ira Hayes
  • Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict. -- Wayne Allard
  • I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes. -- Charles Durning
  • I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen. -- Nathan Gamble
  • No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them. -- T. J. Oshie
  • Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes. -- Carl Crawford
  • No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. -- John Green
  • As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are. -- Tom Brady
  • The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors. -- Bruce Coville
  • Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • ... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them. -- Hal Boyle
  • The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you. -- Mao Zedong
  • The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge. -- Mao Zedong
  • We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual. -- Annie Lennox
  • Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand -- E.M. Tippetts
  • Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist. -- Gino Bartali
  • Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes. -- Bobby Bonilla
  • Apart from those other riders there is a whole production team [ of The Fourth Phase] behind the cameras too, hauling hundreds of kilos of fragile and awkward filming equipment up those same frozen landscapes. They're the real heroes. -- Travis Rice
  • The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes. -- Akira Kurosawa
  • The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. -- John Green
  • When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me? -- Zach Braff
  • Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated. -- Peter Capaldi
  • Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. -- Wilbur Smith
  • I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula. -- Jet Li
  • The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. -- Umberto Eco
  • So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life. -- Blake Lively
  • Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. -- Nora Roberts
  • Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
  • Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy. -- Jess Walter
  • My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero? -- Mitch Hedberg
  • 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
  • Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys. -- Bobby Farrelly
  • 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
  • Where you live matters. Whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle, too - follow them. If the real action is happening somewhere else, move. -- Drew Houston
  • My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion. -- Taylor Wilson
  • If Yucca Mountain had not been designated as a dumpsite for radioactive waste in 1987, it might easily have become a scenic overlook on the long drive between Tonopah and Las Vegas. -- Wil S. Hylton
  • There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. -- David R. Brower
  • For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity. -- James Buchan
  • The international community must do a better job of controlling the risks of nuclear proliferation. Sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle - the production of new fuel, the processing of weapon-usable material, the disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste - would be less vulnerable to proliferation if brought under multinational control. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. -- Michael Moorcock
  • Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians. -- Andy Biersack
  • Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive. -- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
  • We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests. -- Russ Thorne
  • I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes. -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s. -- Steve Earle
  • In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others. -- Kevin Sorbo
  • Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments. -- Kevin Costner
  • I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could. -- Robert Sheckley
  • Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection. -- Roger Delano Hinkins
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