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"Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches, but every year now they're looking for that person. If you know they're looking for it, then you could just try to insert yourself into that position, and it's much easier than if you're in a bigger town."
"The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict."
"A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker."
"The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers."
"The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil."
"I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero."
"It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe."
"Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children."
"Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies."
"If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything."
"Disobedience is the stamp of the hero."
"Every generation of children has its private hero."
"My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am."
"Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man."
"The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action."
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
"If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive."
"Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud."
"How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god."
"Children of heroes have glory for breakfast."
