I’m just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn’t; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don’t have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.
Whatever else it was about, the feminist movement had no interest in exploding the myth of the mysterious and wonderful world of business; it simply wanted in on it.
I’m as much a victim of the romantic myth of ‘getting away’ as anyone else. My head tells me it’s myth, but I don’t want to believe it is.
All minorities think they’re immune, but we’re absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It’s a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.
I don’t know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It’s a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the ’90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it’s real. I’m glad I woke up before my body was just like ‘uh-uh.’
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.
The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali’s friends had described to me as the ‘myth of Mario’ was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
There can’t be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don’t change they just die.
The United States exists as a sovereign nation. ‘America,’ in contrast, exists as a myth of democracy and equal opportunity to live by, or as an ideal goal to reach.
We’re so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there’s something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you’re going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn’t have to be this big, negative bummer.
There’s an ideology that’s taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.
The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks… we’re not asking you to invent new laws for us. We’re asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
The biggest myth I’d like to bust isn’t about me – it’s about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form through highbrow snobbery, but I think a lot of those people would be suprised if they actually saw some.
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
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.
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you’ll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.
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.
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.
Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country’s pastoral myth.
I think the rock’n’roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don’t think you can.
It is a myth that married women do not get work. Those days are gone now. So, if you think I hid my marriage for that reason, it’s not true.
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
I don’t really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn’t happy. I was just hungry.
When you’re starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.
I think we’ve debunked the myth of talent. It doesn’t appear that there’s anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has.
Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it’s hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
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.
While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone to work out their own destiny.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
If you look at the 1960s, Hemingway was viewed on the basis of the myth of his lifestyles rather than viewing his work. Machismo was badly viewed; feminism was becoming a more noble cause. I think the feminists took him apart and assumed he mistreated women.
When I joined Newcastle, at the beginning it was difficult. During pre-season, there was no Ramadan and I also didn’t score then. So it’s a myth. It was about getting into the team, knowing the players better and how they play. My team-mates also have to understand how I play and move.
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.
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
The ‘free market’ is a creed that stirs up near religious devotion among its believers. It is in fact a con, a myth, a great deception.
You want to make money, remake ‘Cinderella.’ You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
It’s a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.
The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
In the ‘era of colorblindness,’ there’s a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have ‘moved beyond’ race.
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Myth is sometimes more important than history.
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
My ’50s were different than other people’s ’50s. The myth didn’t permeate our world, ‘Donna Reed’ and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
If you’ve learned anything from the modern superhero myth, if you see a bat around and it bites you, you have a 75 percent chance of ending up a superhero. Otherwise, you’ll probably get really sick. But it’d be cool to be a superhero. You don’t need to be too afraid.
I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
Let’s get rid of the myth that I’m rich.
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Most people are surprised to find out that the myth of the crowded little island is just that – a myth.
