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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...
Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.
I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify.
Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
There's a myth that in Arab countries, they all like Palestinians. They don't. On the contrary.
I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.
We have perpetrated a myth in our society that being brave means not being afraid, but that's wrong.
There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.
Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that - a myth.
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.