Elizabeth Warren
Politician, Lawyer
"If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends."
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
John Burroughs
Naturalist, Writer
"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."
Alfred Marshall
Economist
"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men."
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"My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours."
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"Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like."
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"I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman."
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"In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style."
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"I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in."
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"What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles."
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"Ron Atkinson was a firefighter. He came in and he stabled the club"
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"There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter."
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