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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.

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

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

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

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

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.

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.