Myth Quotes - Page 31

• The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

  Adolf Hitler

  Dogma, Christianity, Worn

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• Magic is at the core of myths.

  Colin Farrell

  Magic, Core

  "Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

  Colin Farrell

  Country, Sea, Survivor

  "Interview: Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Unexpected, Environment, Benign

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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• American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

  Tom Hooper

  Travel, Class, Age

  "Tom Hooper: the man who doesn't need Oscar". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2011.

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• I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.

  Robert Jordan

  Heart, Different, Culture

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, edition.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

  Sebastian Junger

  Dirty, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Believe, Years, People

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• True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

  Kent McCord

  True Friend, Hollywood, Shows

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• A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

  Tom Harpur

  Reality, Hands, Giving

  Tom Harpur (2005). “The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?”, p.17, Allen & Unwin

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• Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

  Karen O

  Years, Band, Certain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.

  Moby

  Ideas, World, Ontology

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• Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.

  Neal Gabler

  Country, Empires, Study

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• When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

  George Saunders

  Kids, Greek, World

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• Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.

  Hal Sparks

  Ideas, Bangs, Details

  "Dear GM..Your Lease is Up" by Hal Sparks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.

  Stuart Dybek

  Block, Writing, Clay

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• I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realize that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

  Michael Sheen

  Helping, Failing, Process

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.

  Lili Taylor

  Real, Data, Body

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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

  Philosophy, Example, Republic

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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

  Philosophy, Republic, Influence

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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

  Writing, Perfect, Goddess

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• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  Jack White

  Art, People, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

  Tom Brokaw

  Thinking, Idols, People

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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• America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects of young American, a more dependent on the income and education's parents (ph) than another - other countries. So this notion of equal opportunity is sort of American dream is, is now a myth.

  Jedediah Bila

  Dream, Country, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.

  Max Landis

  Ideas, Different, Stories

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