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• Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Creating, Black

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• Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

  Al Goldstein

  Love Is, Hype, White

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• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Decision, Leaving, Shadow

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

  Tom Hanks

  Brother, Hero, Black And White

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• As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

  James Hillman

  Parent, Soul, Body

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• Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

  Hypatia

  Children, Pain, Believe

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• No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Thinking, People, East

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• You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

  Janis Joplin

  White, Racism, People

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• I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

  Bob Kane

  Real, Legends, Real Truth

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• My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Smell, Giving

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• There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

  Jessica Lange

  Thinking, Feminist, Can Do

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• Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

  Jessica Lange

  Successful, Years, Editors

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• In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

  Audre Lorde

  Thinking, Giving, Would Be

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Dream, Becoming Who You Are, Ugly Duckling

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• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Stories, Intriguing, Mechanic

  Interview With Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, People, Trying

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

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• There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

  John Major

  Greek, Black, Wednesday

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• 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.

  Thomas Mann

  Foundation, Flow, Timeless

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kröger, and Other Writings”, p.290, A&C Black

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• Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

  Hilary Mantel

  Ideas, Lasts, Facts

  "On the one hand ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2007.

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• Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, Money, Writing

  "Paul McCartney: One for the Road". Interview with David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. February 08, 1990.

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• The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton and accounting comes in, and you wave it somewhere else and marketing chimes in with accounting, and they all sound very glorious. But management is more like orchestra conducting during rehearsals, when everything is going wrong.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Somewhere Else, Ideas, Marketing

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• 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.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Government, Way, Break

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• A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

  Moby

  Mother, Aunt, Trying

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• I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Misunderstood, Underdog, Fans

  "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.

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• There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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