Quotes with hero-like

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  • Nancy Astor In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Beau Willimon In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bill Gross In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • B. D. Wong In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Benedict Wong In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Bette Davis In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Wyndham Lewis In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ''freedom,'' like a bastard brother of reform.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Forsyth In the old days, variety turns like me learned how to cope with failure - we all had nights when we 'died' on stage - but today's youngsters simply don't have that experience. For them, it really is instant make or break time - hence, all the tears and, hence, all the potential emotional damage.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Beck In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Carice van Houten In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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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.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
    Speech Chicago, december 1856
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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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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  • Bruce Catton In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Abdus Salam In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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