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There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.
Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.
My mom is 60. She has been in the industry for over 30 years and till date, she auditions for movies. It's a myth that star kids don't have to give auditions.
One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
I kind of blew the doors off the myth that all heavy metalheads are Neanderthal and very limited in their ability to take on subject matter of any human depth.
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.
What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.
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.
Myself, there's people saying, 'He'll never find himself in the halls of WWE.' It's a narrative that's fueled more by secondhand fan myth than what people feel.
It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
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.
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
I love a great myth. I love a superhero origin story.
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.
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.
Modern capitalism is based on a myth: that thriving private entrepreneurs generate wealth through their own hard work, innovation and get-up-and-go.
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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.
In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.