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• When I was a kid, I took ‘The Brady Bunch’ and ‘The Partridge Family’ very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

  George Saunders

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  Tags in Myths, Seriously

• Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

  Barbra Streisand

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  Tags in Time, Myths

• There are a lot of myths about gay people.

  Cynthia Nixon

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  Tags in People, Myths

• Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I’ve thrown teacups then we’ve gone through some crockery in this place. It’s completely exaggerated, but I don’t like people arguing back with me.

  Sir Alex Ferguson

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• Magic is at the core of myths.

  Colin Farrell

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  Tags in Magic, Myths

• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

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  Tags in Myths, Body, Bone, Surgery

• The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

  Leo Bogart

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Advertising, Myths, Ideas

• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Myths, Dreams, Private, Public

• Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

  Jean Cocteau

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• Other people’s beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

  Mason Cooley

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• What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.

  Gerald McKnight

  Topics in Belief, Sports

  Tags in Bed, Myths, Adversity

• I am attracted to myths.

  Tina Turner

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• Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

  Ansel Adams

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Myths

• We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

  Carl Gustav Jung

  Tags in Myths

• Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Tags in Myths

• Russia has two generals in whom she can confide -Generals Janvier and Fevrier.

  Nicholas I

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Myths

• No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

  Naomi Wolf

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Myths, Independent Women, Being A Woman