Myth Quotes - Page 32

• I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

  Sean Lennon

  Dream, Song, Film

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

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• I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

  Grant Morrison

  Growing Up, Firsts, Celtic

  "Grant Morrison Talks Comics, Magic, Life and Death". Interview with A. David Lewis, www.publishersweekly.com. August 11, 2008.

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• There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

  Edward Zwick

  Population, Should, Has Beens

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

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• What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Blessing, Democratic Socialism

  "'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

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• In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Jesus, Christ, New Testament

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• In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.

  Allan Kaprow

  Taken, Home, Artist

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Kings, People, Age

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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• Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinement - will be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.

  Frantz Fanon

  Civilization, White, Guilt

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.194, Pluto Press

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• Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

  Harvey Milk

  Brother, Lying, Gay

  "That's What America Is". Harvey Milk's speech given on Gay Freedom Day in San Francisco, June 25, 1978.

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• Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacted.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Self, People

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• There are a lot of myths about gay people.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, People, Gay People

  "Interview with Cynthia Nixon; Interview with Jennifer Love Hewitt; Interview with Serena Williams". "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  People, Evil, Sick

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• History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

  Sondre Lerche

  Song, Emotion, Shows

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• Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.

  Steven T. Katz

  Fundamentals, Jew

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• We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

  Christine Downing

  Needs, Might, Who We Are

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• People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.

  Guy Claxton

  Strong, Teaching, Hero

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• What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and Coke, JFK assassination, AIDS is man-made, etc.), yet disregard thousands of personal and consistent testimonies of miracles and near-death experiences from people throughout all cultures and religions.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.

  David Shi

  Simple, Would Be, Purpose

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• The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

  Herbert Schiller

  Communication, Mean, America

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Errors, Critical

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

  Hans Arp

  Essence, Depth, Doe

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• Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Expression, Realization

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• Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

  Octavio Paz

  Men, Able, Contemporary

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The labyrinth of solitude ; The other Mexico ; Return to the labyrinth of solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The philanthropic ogre”, Grove/Atlantic

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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