Sentences with phrase «childhood hero»

Really, what could be better than grabbing some friends or family members and visiting past childhood heroes?

There, you discover the city's whispers, its secret passages, and become immersed in oversized typography and images of childhood heroes decorating vertiginous walls.

I'd like to close with a quote from somebody else who changed his mind about nuclear power, and somebody else who was a huge childhood hero for me, and that's Sting: «If we're going to tackle global warming, nuclear power is the only way to generate massive amounts of power.»

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Bobby Fischer was one of my many childhood heroes.

In the heady naiveté of childhood hero worship, I saw her as a statue, raising a scorching pan above her head while her skirt swirled around her knees and her apron strings swung out in a wide arc behind her.

«I almost never became a director because there was such a shortage of role models,» he said, adding that childhood heroes like Spike Lee and John Singleton appeared to be «exceptions to the rule.»

Childhood Hero > Self - Important Twit.

But it's Disney, so all of your favourite childhood heroes will feature.

Czyszczoń's paintings feature carefully selected, artistically reduced motifs and borrowings from the worlds of media, popular culture, found photographs and images of childhood heroes.

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If it turns out that a coworker or even a childhood hero of yours doesn't like your personality even when you're at your best, then simply move on and spend time with someone else.

Soon we had a book, which I called Reach for the Skies in homage to my childhood hero, British flying ace Douglas Bader.

At 24, he returned to Japan to start Softbank and the rest is history, except for one interesting twist: Years later, Son actually managed to get his childhood hero, Fujita, to sit on Softbank's board of directors.

One of my childhood heroes was the pilot Douglas Bader, who lost both his legs in a crash early in his career but went on to fly fighter planes for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

In fact, he calls the Microsoft co-founder his childhood hero.

My childhood hero, I realized, was nearing the end of his life.

In this interview, we focus a good chunk on strategies to make your college experience meaningful, childhood heroes, and interview tips.

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And i would hate to see my childhood hero be tarnished by some fat lazy pig on the internet writing sh*t about him while jerking off and orgasming seeing Chelseas success.

She knows that Taurasi's childhood heroes were MJ and Magic, not Cynthia Cooper, not Lisa Leslie.

Now Sanchez has a chance to succeed his childhood hero and become the marquee QB in Los Angeles.

The picture is of my childhood hero, «the Jolly Green Giant,» «Hondo.»

PG - 13 had been linked to the Lakers all season, especially after his childhood hero, Magic Johnson, took the reins as team president in March.

Fabregas was my childhood hero growing up watching arsenal.

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Obviously, it wasn't his attention to offend anyone, he merely wanted to watch his childhood hero play his last game at Yankee Stadium.

But then, Muresan lists Arnold Schwarzenegger as his childhood hero, not Willis Reed.

He's driving for top team Andretti, in collaboration with Michael Shank Racing, and happens to be racing with one of his childhood heroes as his teammate: Fernando Alonso.

It's a situation I never expected myself to be in, especially as he was a childhood hero of mine.

It's not often a driver gets the chance to compete in one of the most famous races in the world with their childhood hero as a teammate

Really, it couldn't have been any other way: Of course the unlikeliest World Series champs in recent memory would be led by a kid who grew up a 45 - minute drive from Busch Stadium, quit baseball for a year after graduating from high school because he was burned out, and, after the Padres drafted him in the ninth round in 2006, was traded to his hometown team the next year for a childhood hero, Jim Edmonds.

On his childhood hero: «It was always Johan Cruyff, he made playing football seem so easy.

My childhood hero along with Peter Osgood.

Clint Capela was a beast alongside Harden, pulling down 8 rebounds and logging 8 blocks, including a third quarter rejection on his childhood hero, Rudy Gobert.

But I will take a little peek at their food stuffs — unsurprisingly they eat a lot of ice cream — nothing to get too excited about — but in my research I discovered one of my childhood heroes was born here.

Dimitri Payet was a teenager when he watched his childhood heroes lift the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship; this time, on a day when France needed someone to be counted for, Payet made himself a hero.

That he equals the tally of Atlético's own top scorer in a team that cost just $ 300,000 to put together suggests that Bastón is more than capable of passing his audition and making the step up to the Atlético first team, particularly if either his childhood hero Torres or summer flop Martínez leave as rumoured.

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Many of these campaigners are my childhood heroes, such as Brian Clarke, Charles Jardine and the film maker Huw Miles.

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Note My overall goal is to build a body like that of my childhood hero Bruce Lee.

Fresh from his glittering success at last month's Fashion Awards — where he was awarded Emerging Menswear Designer of the Year by none other than John Galliano, his childhood hero — the Scottish designer is gearing up to present his latest coup de théâtre, part Claes Oldenburg - inspired performance art (courtesy of long - time collaborator Theo Adams) and part unbridled creativity.

«Rosemary's Baby» (Season 2, Episode 4) A delightfully bitter Carrie Fisher plays Liz's childhood hero, and Alec Baldwin gets one of his funniest moments on the series, role - playing as Tracy's family in a fake therapy session.

Burt goes bankrupt and the only work he can find is in a home for old entertainers, where he meets his childhood hero Rance Holloway (Alan Arkin), now a cantankerous old git.

After landing writing duties on Steven Spielberg's «Robopocalypse» adaptation, it seems he's also expressed interest toward a childhood hero of his: Daredevil.

Anderson's latest film, his fourth, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, is a fiction loosely based on the life of the legendary French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau, «one of those exaggerated larger than life people», and one of Anderson's childhood heroes.

Even one of Feige's childhood heroes, Steven Spielberg, took a public shot at the glut of comic - book movies.

He set up charities to combat cancer, he was the childhood hero for any underdog sportsmen out there and was a national hero for America.