“The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarReasonShowsSocialStuffDarkSawsHeroRedTownsCleanInstancePostsWar Of The WorldsThirtyWorld War IHarvestBloomingContinentalAnti Hero Author:Tod Goldberg
“Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.” PeopleGroupsMiddleHeroVillain Author:Jon Bernthal
“He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.” PeopleWarHeroOffensiveRemarksCapturedMccainPowStupid RepublicanWar Hero Author:Donald Trump
“By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because I wanted to read them. I discovered heroes like Roth, King, Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, TC Boyle, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris. These people weren't trying to "rebel against the literary establishment." They were trying to write great, high-quality books that were as entertaining and moving as possible.” PeopleWritingTryingBookWantedMovingReadingQualityCollegeKingsHeroRebelEstablishmentReading BooksEntertainingBeing CoolHigh QualityGaiman Author:Simon Rich
“Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.” PeopleThinkingKindPoliticalVoicePowerfulHeroMessagesOrdinaryTransformedStrifeOrdinary People Author:Viola Davis
“It was actually a lot more helpful to have Calvin Hart, a cop, as my template. He was also my technical advisor on Shaft. This time, I kinda got to go to Jersey City with him, and hang around, and watch him interact with other cops, people in the projects, and see what it means to be him. People call him 'Big Daddy' and he's this larger-than-life hero to a lot of people.” PeopleMeanBigsCitiesWatchesHeroProjectsHelpfulCopDaddyJerseyAdvisorsLarger Than LifeHartBig DaddyJersey City Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.” PeopleMadeDreamGamesSimpleGrewHeroGrew UpBiggerRaisesAspire Author:Mike Vallely
“Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.” PeopleBeliefPrinciplesJourneyHeroManagementTechniqueSetback Author:Kevin Allen
“When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn't feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken a path of self-preservation.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPersonsSelfFeltPathTakenWonderfulHeroArticlesPreservationRespondingNew YorkersSelf PreservationWonderful Person Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“However, after the assassination of Salman Taseer, the killer of Salman Taseer was welcomed by the religious fanatics. And they showered rose petals on him and declared him a hero of Islam. That is a matter of concern for every peace-loving citizen of Pakistan because terrorists and killers should not be given this type of encouragement. And this is encouragement for other people to take lives with their own hands and kill innocent people.” PeopleShouldMatterHandsGivenReligiousTypeHeroCitizensConcernEncouragementRoseIslamTerroristInnocentKillersPakistanFanaticsAssassinationEver AfterPetalsReligious FanaticsRed RoseRose Petals Author:Shahbaz Bhatti
“The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.” PeopleSometimesHeavenSportsFateTroubleHeroMercyAdversityPreparedEaseEnlightenedTaoismStrideUnfathomableSuppressing Author:Zicheng Hong
“I don't look at myself as a hero I look at myself as just another person who's on the path. I have got a light in front of me shining and I have got other people in front of me with their light shinning for me, I have got people behind me with their light shinning for me.” PeopleLooksPersonsLightBehindsPathFrontsHeroShining Author:John Assaraf
“I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.” PeopleWellsSometimesMovingLeaderExampleHeroQuietGlassesLegislationHornsKentSuper Hero Author:Barbara Mikulski
“The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more straightforward, I guess. But it just seems to be the parts I get, I don't know what that says about me. I enjoy interesting characters and interesting people, I suppose.” PeopleKnowsLittlesPlayCharacterSeemsEnjoyInterestingHeroStandardsStraightforwardInteresting Characters Author:Iwan Rheon
“Trump says things others so desperately want to say to people that work, to people wherever they encounter them. Trump says it. Trump carries a banner of this stuff for people. He says and acts in ways that they do in private, but can't get away with in public. But Trump is. It makes him a hero to these people.” PeopleWayWantStuffTrumpHeroEncountersGet AwayCarrieBanner Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealStatesTodayUsedEasyUnitedCareersUnited StatesMediaHeroVictoryTraditionOppositesProfoundJournalismJournalistScoreBobStatus QuoScandalWatergateReal HeroesInvestigative Journalism Author:Marianne Williamson
“We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.” PeopleDifferentSometimesStoriesCertainHappenedHero Author:James Franco
“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!"” PeopleThinkingWantBigsHappensSpiritualAsksHavensHeroEuropeIntelligentMuseumsMentorClueMexicanAmbassadorsMy HeroIntelligent Women Author:Sandra Cisneros
“If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsIdeasSeemsHeroDrugGood IdeasSaltBaths Author:Seth Rogen
“There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.” PeopleHeroOrganizationGrassrootsUnsung Hero Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be the white guy. And the other guy is his friend who is carrying the bag or whatever, and you're not going to light for that guy.” PeopleTwoLightGuyWhiteHeroSceneCinemaBagsThat GuyOther GuysWhite Guys Author:Ava DuVernay
“We need to take a step back and realize that what happened in the 1950s, when he started his career, is exactly where we are today. Everything goes in a cycle, and right now, distribution is changing. Audiences might be kind of sick of these giant blockbuster movies with all these special effects where blue people are running around and the hero is some non-human entity. These are all great movies, but I think that there's definitely room for new voices to come out.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansKindMightRunningTodayVoiceRealizingRoomsStepsCareersAudienceHappenedSpecialEffectsHeroRight NowSickBlueGiantsCyclesBe KindEntityDistributionSpecial EffectsBlockbuster Author:Alex Stapleton
“Of course, we have leaders in the African American community as well that we've all worked with. One of the great rewards of being an activist is that you get to meet all these wonderful people. And there are many unsung heroes. There are so many out there that are good people that are working hard.” PeopleWellsHardCoursesCommunityLeaderWonderfulHeroRewardsAfrican AmericanActivistGood PeopleGreat RewardUnsung Hero Author:Dolores Huerta
“A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.” PeopleKnowsModernHeroTrainingPosts Author:Scott Snyder
“KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that I think people will be really excited to see.” PeopleThinkingWayCharacterBigsReturnHeroExcitedMythologyChasing Author:Scott Snyder
“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.” PeopleMenHeroVery GoodGood ManMy HeroPhilip Author:Frederick Busch
“There are a lot of discussions where people will decide that James Bond is a superhero, because he's a larger-than-life hero who beats the bad guys by doing larger-than-life things. And I don't think that's a useful definition.” PeopleThinkingGuyHeroBeatsDefinitionsDiscussionSuperheroBad GuysLarger Than Life Author:Kurt Busiek
“The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.” PeopleImportantKidsYoungEasyBlackAnswersHeroBlack PeopleMexicanEasy Answers Author:Adrian Younge
“People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFeelsLightLawOrderAsksBreakSawsHeroShiningAsk MeVillainWrongdoingWhistleblowers Author:Zachary Quinto
“I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicle the hero's journey, and have existed for thousands of years. Owen, in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.” PeopleYearsFilmMoralJourneyGrewHeroGrew UpMythGuidesBrilliantI RealizedDietsClassicExpertsThemeFablesChroniclesDisney Film Author:Roger Ross Williams
“That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.” PeopleThinkingEnjoyAbilityFieldsHeroNotionPlaying Fields Author:Martin Sorrell
“I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.” PeopleThinkingTryingHeartMightAmericaYoungWinningTermChanceRightsImpossibleGenerationsParticularHeroMembersTwentiesMajorityDeterminedCivil RightsBarackOppositionOfferingTeensNaiveVisionariesPragmatismIdealisticFerocityYoung GenerationGeneration Y Author:Van Jones
“The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.” PeopleBookIdeasGroupsHeroHip HopComicHipsRisingHopsComic BookOppressedRising UpDisenfranchised Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad
“Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.” PeopleIfsBookMightGuyCultureFightingVoiceStepsStageHeroFoundationHip HopComicHipsHopsStrongestRapperComic BookMaking ChangesSimilarityStep UpMicsSuper Hero Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad
“The same things that we hurray and support in other places, like people like Nelson Mandela, our prisoners were doing the same thing, and they were captured and convicted of the same things. And we should remember them and treat them like the heroes they are.” PeopleShouldRememberSupportHeroTreatsPrisonerCapturedNelson Author:Sekou Odinga
“People consider me more as hero. Apparently they like the way I stand up, for myself and give my opinion. The french speaking people weren't much of a person like me.” PeopleWayGivingPersonsOpinionHeroLike Me Author:Louis Riel
“I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeGenerationsStrangeProudHeroDrugMajorsPressesHip HopHipsHopsGood PeopleOnly TimeMafiaCrooksGood Business Author:Nikki Giovanni
“Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsBookFilmHouseKnow HowDyingMissingHeroOvercomingYeahExcitementWho We AreBalletOperaClassical MusicMiss Julie Author:Liv Ullmann
“Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit of a departure from both of those stereotypes.” PeopleMenLittlesBitsHeroLittle BitProfessorsStereotypeDepartureConan Author:Richard Dawkins
“Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.” PeopleStreetsHeroBritishFormulasHamiltonFormula OneVettel Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.” PeopleMadeStatesDoneGovernmentActionSpeakLanguageUnitedPartyUnited StatesSacrificeCrimeSeriousDutyHeroCallingConstitutionExcuseWitnessMassiveHeroicHeroismEngagingHistoricViolationCivicsSpeaks OutCivic DutyConstitution Of The United StatesGreat SacrificeBad Actions Author:Edward Snowden
“[J.F Kennedy] was a congressman and a senator and he would go on to be president. I had that idea as a little boy, and I used to joke to people but nobody told me that his father was ambassador to England and that he was a war hero, and he was, you know.” PeopleKnowsLittlesIdeasWarUsedFatherPresidentBoysGoes OnHeroJokesEnglandSenatorsLittle BoysAmbassadorsCongressmanWar Hero Author:Mike Pence
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover
“If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldHardProblemClassFieldsParticularWillingHeroInvolvedToolsFoundationConsideringGoing To WorkGet InvolvedGlobal Health Author:Bill Gates
“When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.” PeopleHeartKindWholeCharacterSeemsKidsSchoolRolesMediaHeroHigh SchoolGoldScriptsDisabilityPremisesQuarterbackGleeWheelchairsPottyHeart Of Gold Author:Zach Anner
“It's just, "Hey,[Barack] Obama's the hero, and he wants Obamacare," and so the coverage is totally devoted to whether or not Obama's gonna get it. Now, in that scenario, who are the villains?Well, your good old, reliable Republicans are the villains, and they are always portrayed as the people trying to deny our beloved hero what he wants.” PeopleWantTryingWellsHeroRepublicanDenyHeyBarackBelovedVillainDevotedScenariosObamacareCoverage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.” PeopleIfsWantYearsCountryLightCareAbleFightingBlackWhitePartyHeroRepublicanHundredDoctorsVoteSickDon't CareTeaI Don't CareBlack PeopleCoalTea PartyMinersDisposableCoal MinersAmerican Hero Author:Van Jones
“The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their lives to making things better for others. These are people whose names you never hear, people who work for Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and other humanitarian groups. They're just out there in the world, doing stuff.” PeopleWorldNamesStuffGroupsHeroDoctorsHumanitarianBordersDevotedClosestImpressedOxfamDoctors Without Borders Author:Bruce Cockburn
“People who become great leaders are those who take time to reflect every day on the big questions: Who am I? What is my purpose? Who are my heroes in history, mythology, and religion? What are my unique talents and how do I express them? These are the qualities of silent reflection that make a great leader, like Jesus.” PeopleBigsPurposeJesusQualityLeaderTalentHeroUniqueReflectionSilentMythologyTake TimeGreat LeaderMy HeroBig QuestionsUnique Talents Author:Deepak Chopra
“We need heroes of color in all different genres. It's also valuable for white readers to be able to meet people in books that are different than themselves. That can be a way of expanding their minds and experiences.” PeopleWayNeedsMindBookDifferentAbleWhiteColorReaderHeroValuableGenreExpandingDifferent Genres Author:Kekla Magoon