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Quotations by Subject: Heroes (12 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.: Don Herold
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.: Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993
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Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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