Who are your heros? Real life people that inspire you.

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Bill Watterson

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Sole creator, writer, artist and end all of Calvin and Hobbes. With the immense success he declined all attempts to commercialize on the name.

He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities.
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In summation, he had the chance to make millions by just giving his consent to make Hobbes dolls but he felt that would take his focus off the strip. Or as he put it . . .

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Berkeley Breathed, of the fantastic comic Outland on a piece sent to him by Watterson
"I have committed other thefts with a clean and unfettered conscience. Garfield was too calculated and too successful not to freely raid for illicit character cameos. Calvin and Hobbes was too good not to. Calvin creator Bill Watterson took these thefts in stride and retaliated in private with devastatingly effective illustrated salvos, hitting me in my most vulnerable places. Bill's sketch is an editorial comment on my addiction to the expensive sport of power boating and the moral compromises needed to fund it. That's me doing the kicking. The chap on the dock represents my cartoon syndicate boss, which says it all, methinks."
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Since the conclusion of Calvin and Hobbes, Watterson has taken up painting, at one point drawing landscapes of the woods with his father.

He will not sign autographs or license his characters, staying true to his stated principles. In previous years, he was known to sneak autographed copies of his books onto the shelves of the Fireside Bookshop, a family-owned bookstore in his home of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. However, after discovering that some people were selling the autographed books online for high prices, he ended this practice as well.
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Apparently he burns the landscapes once he's finished them.
 
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The Wachowski Brothers

The Matrix is groundbreaking on almost every level. In terms of imagination this is definetely near the top of the ladder. Everything else is fantastic too. It was actually released 10 years before James Cameron's Avatar, which was the next great achievement in imagination and technical effects that surpassed The Matrix. But what this amazing piece of cinema has that its achievement sucessor doesn't is a mind-bending plotline. The Matrix is a mind blowing film, I loved it so much that I can't even describe it and I'm also sure I can't say anything bad about it, for one simple reason, there's no bad thing about it.
 
I'd also like to add Thomas Paine and Michele Foucault to my list. And if people are listing authors for solely their work and not who they were (because they were dead long before) I'd also like to add Cicero and Derrida.
Flying_Phoenix said:
Hitches was great on religion. Shitty with foreign policy.
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You do know he has been writing on "foreign policy" for decades? Don't tell me you're one of those people who invalidates his entire political opinion because of Iraq. He has written on literally every major foreign policy event for the last twenty-five years. Even his position on Iraq is more in-depth than people give him credit for, even if he was wrong in the end.
speculawyer said:
I can't disagree there. He tried to defend the Iraq invasion on anti-theocracy grounds but Saddam was just theocratic to get popular approval. It was pretty clear that he was no real serious Muslim.
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Not really? Well, partially. He showed immense solidarity with the Kurdish people (my image), and he believed that the war would give them some independence. If you read his memoirs he details his dislike for Saddam and it was on everything but anti-theocratic grounds. He referred to what Saddam did to his people as "surplus evil" which unsettled him to no end. Sure theocracy was influential, but Hitchens was about a lot more than just no religion.
 
Well I might as well not fucking post since the OP stole every person I was going to plug... and almost in the same order too. Right on the money.
 
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The Wachowski Brothers

The Matrix is groundbreaking on almost every level. In terms of imagination this is definetely near the top of the ladder. Everything else is fantastic too. It was actually released 10 years before James Cameron's Avatar, which was the next great achievement in imagination and technical effects that surpassed The Matrix. But what this amazing piece of cinema has that its achievement sucessor doesn't is a mind-bending plotline. The Matrix is a mind blowing film, I loved it so much that I can't even describe it and I'm also sure I can't say anything bad about it, for one simple reason, there's no bad thing about it.
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MuseManMike said:
Not really? Well, partially. He showed immense solidarity with the Kurdish people (my image), and he believed that the war would give them some independence. If you read his memoirs he details his dislike for Saddam and it was on everything but anti-theocratic grounds. He referred to what Saddam did to his people as "surplus evil" which unsettled him to no end. Sure theocracy was influential, but Hitchens was about a lot more than just no religion.
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The part the bugs people about Hitchens and Iraq was how foolishly stubborn he was as his mass denial. It seemed like an ego problem almost.
 
Flying_Phoenix said:
The part the bugs people about Hitchens and Iraq was how foolishly stubborn he was as his mass denial. It seemed like an ego problem almost.
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I've come to understand his position somewhat although I think it was wrong. Hitchens felt Saddam was a true theist whereas I think Saddam was just an opportunist who was Muslim to the degree that it helped him politically. Yes, even dictators need to be political. As a Saudi leader once said, democratic leaders lose elections but dictators/monarchs lose their heads.
 
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Bill Watterson

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Sole creator, writer, artist and end all of Calvin and Hobbes. With the immense success he declined all attempts to commercialize on the name.
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It just dawned on me that for my entire life I had no idea what he looked like. I've adored his comics since I was a kid and always admired his strict attitude when it came to controlling his characters.

But I've always wondered, what is up with the Calvin peeing on the ground stickers that I see on the back of trucks? Why does it exist, and what does it mean?

I know Watterson isn't involved, but that is Calvin right? It looks exactly like him.
 
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Such an amazing pick. Morrison inspires me as a writer, and has changed the way I look at writing story arcs and ongoing narrative.

The man is a genius. Despite the macabre and often dark tone of his work, there's also this thread of hope. He's a big proponent of the concept that "it's going to be alright", and a hopeful message is missing in writing, especially comic books. His idea of using superheroes as a modern pantheon is awesome, too.

Also, I hope to one day look as good in a suit as he does.
 
speculawyer said:
I've come to understand his position somewhat although I think it was wrong. Hitchens felt Saddam was a true theist whereas I think Saddam was just an opportunist who was Muslim to the degree that it helped him politically. Yes, even dictators need to be political. As a Saudi leader once said, democratic leaders lose elections but dictators/monarchs lose their heads.
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The last sentence is true.
 
Flying_Phoenix said:
The part the bugs people about Hitchens and Iraq was how foolishly stubborn he was as his mass denial. It seemed like an ego problem almost.
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It was. He held onto it much longer than he should have and it cost him. Some say he was coming around to it in his last few years, but I guess we'll never know for sure now. Besides, I and others (Salazar is the only person on GAF that comes to mind) will tell you: his best and most entertaining work was in literary criticism and auto-biographical pursuits -- not politics.
 
Lot of physicist mentioned here but no Paul Dirac? Man was fucking genius right there with Einstein. Not to mention one peculiar character :D

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Can't recommend enough this book:
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People with genetic disorders. Handicap people. Burn victims.


Honestly. I see these people going through life with a smile on their face and it just makes all my troubles seem petty. There really is no reason to not persevere.
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I think it's pretty understandable nobody mentions Dirac. The only reason people know Feynman is because there's a few books and videos out there where he's translating physics to the layman. Hard to look up to someone if you don't stumble onto something that will let you gauge their character. I'm only a few chapters into that book on him by Fermelo. Good so far!
 
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Andy Kaufman

The guy fulfilled his dreams and trolled the world at the same time -- all within his short 35 years of life. Honestly the only person who's ever inspired me before.
 
Man... it must be Bill Watterson, because after elementary school, I've not considered any people as heroes or inspiration. Grew with Calvin & Hobbes and it affected me greatly. Made me question everything.

I can't relate to heroes due to my non-existent relationship with all of my family I reckon.
 
No heroes, but my parents are the people who inspire me the most in life, because they're the most negative people I've experienced. Understanding how they turned into that, their incapabilities and vulnerabilities, serves as a huge lesson and inspiration for me on how I want to live my life. I'm here to break the cycle of issues they wouldn't or couldn't deal with.
 
My grandfather who passed away a couple of years ago was my real life hero, my non real life hero has to be the character Sam Beckett (played by Scott Bakula) from Quantum Leap. To set right what once went wrong, the whole God/Devil theory, going back in time and fixing things that went wrong inspires me in a way.
 
David Cameron

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the dude is awesome; make mad stacks of cash or live a poor miserable life.
 
My heroes tend to be people that gave me (and the world) stories, worlds, characters, tools, or music that inspire imagination and creativity.

Jim Henson
Stan Lee
John Lasseter
Steve Jobs
Wozniak
Trent Reznor
Bill Watterson
Miyamoto
Frank Oz
Walt Disney
John Williams
The old George Lucas before he became an asshole hack

I can't imagine a world without the Muppets, Spider-man, Mario or Woody and Buzz.
 
My grandmother. Passed trough our civil war, he had to take care of her 5 brothers and sister when his father was arrested and locked into jail accsued of being a "collaborator" (he used to work as a judge for the republic) and all our family's possessions confiscated, leaving her in the street with 5 mouths to feed. She started the family business, a metal workshop located in her flat. She worked like a mule, and was able to get an education, lead her business sucessfully and learning how to drive a car (3 things that were really unheard of for women at her time, since it was illegal for them to even open a bank account). She rised 3 sons (as well as her brothers and sisters), never, ever had any inch of hatred towards the other side of our civil war (an extremely rare occurrence in our hatred - filled country) and when my grand father passed away when he was on her 50s due to cancer, instead of becoming a depressive widow, she was able to pull trought, finded another man and re - marry again. Now she's enjoying a well deserved retirement, and travelling all around the world (Thailand, India, Egypt and Russia, so far) in order to see all the places he readed about when she was young yet did not have any money to visit them :) love her to bits, even if she is slowly starting to loose her head, I fear :(
 
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