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" The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us. "

Stan Lee

Hero

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" I've been the luckiest man in the world because I've had friends, and to have the right friends is everything: people you can depend on, people who tell you the truth if you ask something. "

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" America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way. "

" My mother was the greatest mother in the world. She thought I was the greatest thing on two feet. I'd come home with a little composition I had written at school, and she'd look at it and say, 'It's wonderful! You're another Shakespeare!' I always assumed I could do anything. It really is amazing how much that has to do with your attitude. "

" When I was a kid, my favorite superhero was Robin Hood. "

" I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly. "

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" I think I've never stopped feeling like a kid. "

Stan Lee

Never

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" All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it. "

" It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion. "

" I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them. "

" I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time. "

" Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance. "

" We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other. "

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" I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence. "

" I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got to be others with similar tastes. "