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Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.
Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.
For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.
They say don't meet your heroes, but when it comes to Bowie, he truly is the most brilliant person I've ever met.
I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
Honoring our nation's heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me - especially on Independence Day.
I like my heroes to be imperfect; I like them to be striving. I identify with that kind of aspiration to do better.
The art of stunt-making is not about falling down; it's about getting the shot. Creating stunts is creating heroes.
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.
Growing up my heroes were American motocross riders. I didn't want to be a drummer; I wanted to be a motocross rider.
I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
I don't accept films just because they have star heroes in lead. I rejected a few big films because I didn't like the story.
We can bring this country together. But we must realize that our heroes in blue are part of the solution and not the problem.
I met the Gallagher brothers, and Noel was quoting my 'Fonejacker' catchphrases. Hearing your heroes quote you is incredible.
I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.
People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.
Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.
Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
The story of the Underground Railroad is the story of American heroes, and who doesn't want to hear a story about American heroes?
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.