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• Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

  Jake Kasdan

  Fun, Rocks, Comedian

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• Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

  Don Rickles

  People, Appreciate, Lasts

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• The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Taken, Men

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

  Philip Roth

  Inspiring, Children, Parent

  Philip Roth (2005). “Novels, 1967-1972”

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• Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".

  Anderson Cooper

  Angel, Hair, Guy

  "Going gray" by Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. August 2003.

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• The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Doe, Appearance

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.197, Wordsworth Editions

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• Lady Gaga will dominate the charts next year. She let me listen to a couple of new songs, she is a legend.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Couple, Years

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Mother, Encouragement, Son

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• An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.

  Allen Lacy

  Beautiful, Girl, Weed

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• If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

  Chief Dan George

  Children, Fall, Way

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• Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.

  Michael Dell

  Jobs, Prayer, Team

  "Nationwide Outpouring of Remembrance for Apple's Steve Jobs", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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• We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later than you think." But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.

  Lionel Trilling

  Thinking, Wrath, Hands

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• Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

  Mark Twain

  Together, Looks, Tradition

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.174

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• There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Distance, Collective Memory

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• The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Important

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• All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

  C. S. Lewis

  Bible, Jobs, Thinking

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• I am now a legend. I am also the greatest athlete to live.

  Usain Bolt

  Athlete, Greatest Athlete

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• Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Thinking, Dust

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• I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Dust, Details

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• Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

  Scott Steiner

  Myth, Phenomenon

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• Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hero, Forever, Comes And Goes

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• Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

  Chris Priestley

  Mean, Imagination, Doe

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Personal Legend, Want

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Reality, Facts, Legendary

  Lesley Hazleton (2013). “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad”, p.14, Penguin

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