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“My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.”

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Author:Dick Vitale

“When I was young, I saw a lot of martial arts films with Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. I loved them. They are my heroes but, I'm so powerful, I'm so faster. I'm so young and so handsome like a model. I really loved them so they are my role models.”

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Author:Rain

“Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.”

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Author:Frank Wilczek

“My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.”

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Author:Rafael van der Vaart

“I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.”

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Author:Black Francis

“It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.”

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Author:John Mayer

“I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.”

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Book:Wilderness

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“One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.”

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Author:John Carpenter

“My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'”

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Author:Alan King

“I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.”

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Author:Chris Carter

“All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!”

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Author:Michel Ocelot

“My heroes used to be cowboys.”

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Author:David Foreman

“I'm sick of over-trained heroes. I'm really bored with that. Guys that are just ripped to shreds and full of skills. That's boring me. Give me the mechanic that picks up a weapon. Now I'm interested. That's my hero.”

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Author:Bruce Campbell

“I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.”

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Author:Jim Woodring

“I learned many lessons from my first race with my heroes. I learned it was easier to breathe when I cried, so I cried often and without shame. I learned that a teammate's faith in you can propel you up any mountain. I learned that winning requires an entirely different mind-set than not losing. I learned that the best teams in the world share not only their strengths but also their weaknesses. I learned that you don't inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.”

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Author:Robyn Benincasa

“I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.”

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Author:Michael Angelo Batio

“My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.”

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Author:Dale Murphy

“I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse and he's one of my heroes so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable and they've got brains the size of golf balls.”

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Author:Sebastian Coe

“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”

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Author:E. W. Howe

“Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.”

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Author:Tatiana Maslany

“I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.”

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Author:Aziz Ansari

“Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.”

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Author:Ryan Giggs

“Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.”

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Author:Sherman Alexie

“A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.”

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Author:Bindi Irwin

“When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.”

“I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. Thats where the spirit of the armed forces is.”

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Author:Bob Ainsworth

“I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.”

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Author:Ruth Glick

“I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.”

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Author:Bert Jansch

“Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.”

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Author:Dale Watson

“I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.”

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Author:Paul Reed Smith

“Celine Dion is one of my heroes. The first song I learned was "My Heart Will Go On." And we sang "Because You Loved Me" for my mom which was a huge deal for me.”

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Author:Charice Pempengco

“I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.”

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Author:Young Jeezy

“I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.”

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Author:Derek Jeter

“Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.”

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Author:Dave Koz

“Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a beast.”

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Author:Aeriel Miranda

“I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.”

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Author:Maria Thayer

“I got very spoiled. Everybody said you will never ever work on such a good movie, you know. I did, because I went on to work on Captain America, which also has a great director, which is Joe Johnston, one of my heroes who designed the old Star Wars movies.”

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Author:Daniel Simon

“Also one of my heroes is Syd Mead, who designed the vehicles for the first Tron. So, there are so many beautiful things happening here. And working with Joe was great. He's an architect, so I worked with other directors in between who were just about the action.”

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Author:Daniel Simon

“I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it.”

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Author:Geena Davis

“My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.”

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Author:Frederick Busch

“My uncle was a cop, a career cop, on the beat in downtown Chicago. He was my hero when I was growing up.”

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Author:Mike Pence

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