Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (; April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for her performances in a...

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This became a credo of mine… attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.

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The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.

—Benjamin Disraeli

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

—Ernest Hemingway

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What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the vanguard of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

—John B. Gough

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I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers.

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We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

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