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I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.
(Spike Milligan (b. 1918), British comedian, humorous writer. Puckoon, ch. 2 (1963).)
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
(Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet, Jesuit priest. sermon, Nov. 23, 1879. Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins, ed. W.H. Gardner (1953).)
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Representative Men, "Uses of Great Men," (1850).)
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The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
(Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914), U.S. historian. The Image, ch. 2, Atheneum (1961).)
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What's a hero? I didn't even think about it.
(Uli Derickson (b. c. 1944), flight attendant. As quoted in People magazine, p. 111 (March 7-14, 1994).
Working on TWA flight 847 from Athens to Rome, which was hijacked for seventeen days by Lebanese terrorists in 1985, she persuaded the hijackers to spare the lives of all but one person on board and maintained calm throughout the ordeal. Rejecting the "hero" label, she insisted that she was only doing her job.)
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
(Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941), U.S. singer, songwriter. Interview in booklet accompanying the Biograph album set (1985).)
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Carlyle, to adopt his own classification, is himself the hero as literary man.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Thomas Carlyle and His Works" (1847), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 340, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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My villain, my hero you mean. I always think of my murderers as my heroes.
(Samson Raphaelson (1896-1983), U.S. screenwriter, Alma Reville, screenwriter, Joan Harrison, screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Isobel Sedbusk (Auriol Lee), Suspicion (1941).
Mystery writer Isobel Sedbusk discusses her fictional characters at a dinner party.)
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