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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
W. Averell Harriman
Day
Every Day
Myth
Every
Gave
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Stalin
Roosevelt
Europe
The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
Walter Gropius
Fear
Tyranny
Will
Myth
Crushed
Out
Examination
Individuality
Sort
Withstand
Cannot
Which
Standardization
Growing
I think the American Dream is kind of a myth, especially for millennials.
Weyes Blood
Myth
Think
Kind
Dream
American
American Dream
Millennials
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
Change
Words
Myth
Labels
Semantics
Which
Meanings
Languages
Switch
Museum
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
William Robertson Smith
Be True
Myth
Sense
Every
Philosophy
Arbitrary
Religious
Allegorical
Ritual
Facts
True
Demand
Categories
Principle
Sought
Itself
Common
Which
Common Sense
Explained
Custom
Explanation
Requires
Actual
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a woman. And that's how humans reproduced. And I thought, 'How could I really understand that?'
William T. Vollmann
Woman
Thought
Myth
Changed
Brother
Brothers
About
Could
Understand
How
Were
Gets
Human
Race
Younger
Younger Brother
Really
Human Race
Origin
Eventually
Humans
Two
It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb.
Wolfgang Puck
Love
Myth
Live
Muslims
Indians
Kings
Generally
Red
Red Meat
Mostly
Without
Expensive
Lamb
Chinese
Japanese
Asians
Vietnamese
Meat
Many
Pork
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Zoe Kazan
Women
Creativity
Men
Men And Women
Myth
Relationships
Say
About
Both
Between
Always
Been
Interested
Really
I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
Zooey Deschanel
Myth
Total
About
Seems
Something
Pursued
Never
Weird
Like
Parts
Always
How
Hear
Role
Going
Stories
After
Actor
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers.
Marvin Minsky
Me
World
Made
Myth
Own
Creation
Every
Think
I Think
Insightful
Seems
Adopted
Poets
Individual
Writers
Idea
Most
Makes
Caused
Cultures
Up
Than
Person
Different
Stories
Either
Different Cultures
Them
Less
Who
Eventually
Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn't selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn't selling out. Why can't black people make money?
Ashley Walters
People
Money
Black
Myth
Out
He
Make
Selling
Richard
Bill
Bill Gates
Why
Gates
There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote on it.
Zephyr Teachout
Vote
Corruption
Myth
Believe
Cares
Out
About
Although
Going
Candidates
Populace
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
Martin O'Malley
Myth
Disservice
Deficit
Ourselves
Security
Some
Somehow
Drives
Cave
Social
Us
Social Security
It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.
Steven Gundry
Heart
Too Much
Myth
Too
Bit
Attacks
Causes
Much
Cholesterol
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.
Angela Rayner
Education
Higher Education
Myth
Earnings
Tories
Higher
Policies
Becoming
Graduate
The Graduate
Justify
Used
Premium
Many
Fast
I don't get involved in recruitment like people think I do. There's a myth that I look at YouTube and choose players. I don't. Having an eye for players is an art. I have no interest in doing that.
Ed Woodward
Art
People
Myth
YouTube
Think
Eye
No Interest
Having
Recruitment
Like
Look
Involved
Doing
Get
Interest
Choose
Players
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