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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
- Irwin Edman
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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
- Steven T. Katz
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
- Walter Gropius
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A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
- Ashwin Sanghi
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There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than transporting patients. We made presentations to graduating students at various healthcare institutes, trying to debunk this myth.
- Shaffi Mather
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
- V. S. Pritchett
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No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.
- Kevin Mitnick
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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
- Irwin Edman
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The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.
- Derek Walcott
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Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
- Lauren Groff
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
- W. Averell Harriman
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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
- William Robertson Smith
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
- Dennis Potter
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Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
- Ari Fleischer
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
- Gavin Hood
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I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.
- Jerry Rubin
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
- Wally Lamb
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The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.
- Rene Girard
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
- Taylor Sheridan
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Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.
- Sara Sheridan
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As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.
- David Farr
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Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
- Karen O
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
- Paul Di Filippo
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No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
- Lester Bangs
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I'm very proud of the fact that we dispelled the myth about black athletes not being able to survive in Green Bay.
- Mike Holmgren
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- Roland Barthes
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It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
- Jean M. Auel
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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
- Robert Trout
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The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
- Robert Trout
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It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.
- Steven Gundry
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Contrary to myth, 'The Feminine Mystique' and feminism did not represent the beginning of the decline of the stay-at-home mother but a turning point that led to much stronger legal rights and 'working conditions' for her.
- Stephanie Coontz
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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
- Joan D. Vinge
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
- Joan D. Vinge
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I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
- Bill Keller
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If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
- Alma Guillermoprieto
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The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.
- Peter Hedges
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All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
- Gabrielle Union
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There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.
- Meghan Markle
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Sorry, equality is a myth. Women aren't as strong as men - they can't even hold their booze as well as men.
- Gavin McInnes
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In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.
- Eva Moskowitz
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Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
- James Lapine
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It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.
- Tom Tancredo
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Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
- James Dyson
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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
- Thom Yorke
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The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
- Rob Bell
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The reality of Britain is vibrant multiculturalism, but the myth we export is an all-white world of lords and ladies. Conversely, American society is pretty segregated, but the myth it exports is of a racial melting-pot, everyone solving crimes and fighting aliens side by side.
- Riz Ahmed
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
- Willard Van Orman Quine
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In 1861, Bachofen published his radical thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization.
- Amanda Foreman
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I think the biggest myth entrepreneurs have is that the growth and performance of their startups depends more on their entrepreneurial talent than on the businesses they choose.
- Scott Shane
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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
- Bob Kane
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The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
- Henry A. Wallace
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
- Leon Trotsky
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The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.
- Louis de Broglie
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I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!
- Travis Scott
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
- Albert Camus
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
- Thomas Mann
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
- Frank Waters
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
- Camille Paglia
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One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
- Smokey Robinson
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
- Warren Farrell
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
- Marilynne Robinson
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People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.
- Milla Jovovich
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We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
- George Weinberg
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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
- Robert Heller
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A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
- Annie Besant
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
- Jean Cocteau
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
- Rollo May
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You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
- Mike Nichols
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
- Boris Pasternak
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I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
- John Bacon
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The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
- Richard Dawkins
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Cyril Connolly
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
- Brene Brown
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
- Alan Watts
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
- Arthur M. Schlesinger
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