"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived..." - Quote by Will Rogers
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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“You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.”
“We have the best Congress that money can buy.”
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.”
More on Heroism
“What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!”
“Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.”
“When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.”
More on Fame
“The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.”
“A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'”
“I've never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don't run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.”