#heroes

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. ↗

— Graham Greene

#anymore #heroes #make #world

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#band #black #black and white #brothers #doing

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#been #come #conditions #founded #heroes

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ↗

— William Hurt

#basis #become #calculated #courage #guys

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#inspirational #inspirational

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict. ↗

— Wayne Allard

#armed forces #conflict #forces #heroes #men

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes. ↗

— David Baldacci

#protagonists

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#crew #heroes #hours #long #such

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#everyone #guthrie #heroes #like #musical