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• The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

  Jo Nesbo

  Norway, Maradona, Lost

  " Anders Breivik massacre will change crime writing, says author" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2011.

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• A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Struggle, People, Principles

  "The age of indifference" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

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• I wrote a novel called "Blonde," which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Blonde, Bakers, Culture

  "Writer Joyce Carol Oates". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

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• I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

  Yoko Ono

  Being Thankful, Groups, Crumbling

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• I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Important, Prejudice

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• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Nature, Imagination

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

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• As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

  Boris Pasternak

  Men, Anxious, Infallibility

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• If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Evil, Moral

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• I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Stars, Children, Coal Miners

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• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

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• I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.

  Rick Riordan

  Art, Nice, Thinking

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• Over the years, myths were built up about my relationship with Fred Astaire. The general public thought he was a Svengali, who snapped his fingers for his little Trilby to obey; in their eyes, my career was his creation.

  Ginger Rogers

  Eye, Years, Careers

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  Karl Rove

  Looks, Amusement, Towns

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. March, 11, 2010.

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• There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Men, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.219, Routledge

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• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Mean, Cups

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• The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

  Jill Scott

  Video, Awful, Way

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• There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

  Jill Scott

  Strong, Years, Long

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• Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

  Michael Shermer

  Motivational, Stories, Morality

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.111, Henry Holt and Company

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• But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Age, Preoccupation

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• Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

  Michael Shermer

  Plato, Historical, Facts

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.113, Henry Holt and Company

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• I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Real, Responsibility, Government

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• I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

  Robert Smith

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Spin magazine, 1987.

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• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Years, Horizon, Who We Are

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• Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

  Barbra Streisand

  Waste, Wasting Time, Progression

  "Myths vs. Facts: Playing the True or False Game in Entrepreneurship, Part 2" by Penina Rybak, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

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