Myth Quotes - Page 9

• It is not easy to free
  myth from reality
  or rear this fellow up
  to lutch, lurch with them
  in the tranced dancing of men.

  Earle Birney

  Reality, Men, Dancing

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• Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.

  Bernard Nathanson

  Mean, Media, Numbers

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• Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

  Roger Ross Williams

  People, Experts, Fables

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.

  Werner Herzog

  War, Fall, Volcanoes

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Process, Shows

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should begin to see that also depicting it as vulnerable to non-existent threats undermines the myth itself.

  Sarah Posner

  Christian, Pumps, Narrative

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• Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Years, Drug

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I know that there's this one Albanian myth that's always reflected on, and I think it reflects on the actual core culture. That myth is called The Besa. B-E-S-A. The Besa is a word that Albanians use to mean avow, but it's such a strong promise, that even past death, one cannot break that promise. It is unfathomable. So if you give someone your besa, life or death, heaven or hell, you have to fulfill that besa.

  Masiela Lusha

  Strong, Mean, Past

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

  Hershel Shanks

  Book, Biblical, Epic

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

  Sergio Leone

  America, Cinema, Stories

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Race, Goes On, Horrible

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

  Lisa Ling

  Long, American Exceptionalism, Exceptionalism

  "Interview: Sonia Kennebeck, Ines Hofmann Kanna, & Lisa Ling on Giving Wings to 'National Bird'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. November 16, 2016.

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• In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

  George Carlin

  Strong, New York, Marijuana

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an alcoholic for the first 10 years of the marriage, and they say they are never going to change.

  Gary Chapman

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• We can certainly see contemporary examples of people who radically change. As long you believe your spouse will never change and you keep telling yourself that, then you live with no hope. But if you understand that that's a myth, then you open up the door to hope.

  Gary Chapman

  Believe, Doors, Long

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That's where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece - which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

  Oliver Stone

  Hero, Men, Greek

  Source: www.chud.com

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• The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

  Steve Stern

  Perfect, Understanding, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

  Michael Hudson

  People, Income, Earning

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Islamic myths are mostly actually plagiarized from the Christian ones, both biblically and in terms of modern creationism. If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Islamic, Literature

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Icons, Cinema

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• The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.

  Laura Bates

  Children, Play, Careers

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• The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Enemy, Truth Is

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the English language, which has a rather limited vocabulary when it comes to psychological descriptions, not to speak of spiritual descriptions. We're good mythically - the English language is superb for myth. But we're not very good for psychology or spirituality.

  Jean Houston

  Spiritual, Issues, Vocabulary

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our fault. They were just an inferior race. And so John Marshall adopts that. And the tragedy and the present-day circumstances of that decision are that those racial attitudes are so deeply embedded in these foundational principles of American Indian law.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Attitude, Decision, Tragedy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.

  Debbie Harry

  Thinking, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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