Quotes with anti-hero

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  • Mignon McLaughlin In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
    Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Jeanette Winterson In this life, you have to be your own hero.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Anne Brontë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barack Obama It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Billie Jean King It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Boris Becker It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Bert Lance Jesse Jackson is not anti-Semitic, but in politics, you always get in trouble when you try to be cute.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Andrew Vachss Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Hannah Arendt Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Ben Shapiro Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • John Lennon My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bill Goldberg My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Solomon Short Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
    Solomon Short
     
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  • Jean Paul No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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