In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.
Eva Moskowitz
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Margaret Atwood
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
Cate Blanchett
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
Taylor Sheridan
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Irwin Edman
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Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
Edd Roush
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'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.
Jenova Chen
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I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
Jeffrey Hunter
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When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.
Tori Amos
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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Ross MacDonald
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The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.
Louis de Broglie
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The idea of sacrifice is integral to the John Henry myth. Heroic figures have to die in order for us to have our stories; we live and stand on their bones.
Colson Whitehead
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I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
Anne Fortier
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The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
Suzanne Somers
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I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
Sean Lennon
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The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.
Rene Girard
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Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
James Dyson
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The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
Eric Alterman
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
Lauren Groff
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There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
Edward Zwick
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
Sam Shepard
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Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
Ha-Joon Chang
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