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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. He just read it and didn't want to do it - that's it. There's a myth around that he said it's not filmable. But he never wanted to film it.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if you still love the dirt, then I think you should stay on board.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.