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We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.
Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.
I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
I'm very proud of the fact that we dispelled the myth about black athletes not being able to survive in Green Bay.
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.
This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.
I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
As an actor, I am delighted that Innocent has busted the myth that a film star would never win an election in Kerala.
'Believe women' only works as a rule of thumb when all women are good. That myth falls flat outside Victorian England.
I wanted to be cleared up about that Lost Weekend. I've heard enough of the myth. It was frustrating, but I let it go.
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
We've been living with this myth that somehow government investment in research has not been critical to economic growth.
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
It's a myth that you can have it all. You can't, but more importantly, I don't think you should want to. It sounds exhausting!
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn't selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn't selling out. Why can't black people make money?
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.
Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.
The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.
The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.