It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
Deborah Tannen
BestPeopleFriendsModernMyth
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
Ari Fleischer
CountryTaxTaxesCutMythOnly
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
Philipp Meyer
StoryThinkAmericaYouKnowMyth
There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.
Pauline Marois
KnowEconomyFalseAnythingMyth
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Norman Davies
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As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
James Ellroy
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Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.
Fred Kaplan
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The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
Alan Dundes
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
Paul Di Filippo
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I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
Carre Otis
TrySizeForeverMythPaidLeast
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. Pritchett
FamilyBornMythFarHappenedOur
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Irwin Edman
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It's a myth that you have to wash your hair all the time.
Camila Alves
TimeHairYouWashMythYour
I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
Jennifer Nettles
LoveManGayMythWouldGlee
The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.
Anna Kendrick
SayingSneakersHeelsJeansMyth
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
Smokey Robinson
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Rollo May
WorldWayExistencePatternsMyth
The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.
Louise Wilson
FashionThinkParisYoungMoreMyth
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.
Christoph Waltz
ArtArtistTrueMythBohemianBeen
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
Annie Besant
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Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
Phyllis Schlafly
WomenCountryAbandonedIsraelMyth
There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the dead rather than transporting patients. We made presentations to graduating students at various healthcare institutes, trying to debunk this myth.
Shaffi Mather
TryingHealthcareIndiaDeadMyth
American public policy is run on a myth.
Richard Lamm
AmericanRunPolicyMythPublic
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
James Lapine
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