“Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.” KnowsMenYearsDoeHas BeensSometimesHandsPastBeautifulYoungGuyPayAttentionWonderfulExampleHeroPay AttentionGood ManThat GuyMy HeroWonderful LifeBeautiful Family Author:Dave Grohl
“Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.” IfsFirstsHumansWellsLittlesShowsStarsVoiceStruggleMeditationWonderfulSeaHeroCallingLaborStormNobleNoiseMachineryQuietnessClamor Author:James Vila Blake
“My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels, and the Stalin era was so festive that the heroes of the day must still be celebrated today.” StillsTodayWatchesTeachWonderfulTelevisionHeroAngelProgramUnionsErasSovietSoviet UnionFestiveKgb Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed me. But I'm talking about what I see in the streets and in the media, this naked hatred that black men have towards the authentic black woman'which is really an indication of black men's hatred for blackness itself.” MenChildrenFatherBlackTalkingWonderfulStreetsMediaHeroHatredNakedMy ChildrenBlack WomenBetrayedIndicationNot TalkingBlacknessDisrespected Author:Kola Boof
“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