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“To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.”

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Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .”

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Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”

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Author:George Lucas

“What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?”

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Book:Smoke

Source: Smoke

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”

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Book:Travels in Hyperreality

Source: Travels in Hyperreality

“I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.”

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Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”

“People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.”

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Author:Kevin Conroy

“A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture - in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.”