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I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.
There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
There's a myth that in Arab countries, they all like Palestinians. They don't. On the contrary.
I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.
There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
I think Steve Bannon is much to-do about nothing. I think this is a guy who wants to create his own myth.
Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.
India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.
I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Sorry, equality is a myth. Women aren't as strong as men - they can't even hold their booze as well as men.
The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That's not true. Makeup is important.
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.
You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.
I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.