Joseph Campbell Quotes

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1904 - October 31, 1987

Topics

ReligionFactsYouTroubleTrueWay

I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.

Joe Mantello

MeSpeakLaughBecomeMake Me Laugh

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

Steven Tyler

LiveEgoHonorBuyBigSomething

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

Steve Madden

LifeMeTroubleShoeRightThings

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

LL Cool J

WinToughFeelTryingYouLose

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin' icon, you're not on the show, you know?

DJ Khaled

MeYouKnowBecauseIconShow

I'm much more comfortable being hated than being beloved.

Dean Ambrose

ComfortableMoreBeingHatedThan

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

Cherie Blair

MyselfUglyPeopleFashionThink

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

Britney Spears

CoolUsedAnymoreChick

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

Susan Bysiewicz

LeaderWomanManStrongConfident

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

Penn Jillette

PeopleYouKnowOutFreakTell

The only thing I advocate for is for equality for female athletes because we train just as hard, and we're always having a lot of head-to-head clashes, always competing against each other.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

EqualityTrainHardAlwaysAdvocate

I have a message for all the birdies who try to get in touch with people online who they think might help them to meet me or give my personal information. That will never happen. Don't believe anything anyone tells you on social media about me because not even my parents know what I am up to.

Shaheer Sheikh

Social MediaI AmParentsPeopleMe

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