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Magic is at the core of myths.
There are a lot of myths about gay people.
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
I just get tired of the same rehashing of lies and myths.
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
Don't let the myths make you believe that women don't support other women.
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
How come trying to explode myths about Texas always winds up reinforcing them?
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, 'A stranger arrives.'
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.
Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore it.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.
The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the same story. It's the same story, but with a different face.
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
Our connection to the great myths of our natures is murky. A mother might see the Medea in herself without imagining she will ever do away with her children.
Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths.
One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
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.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.