I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.
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JEROME What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly th... JACK ZIPES Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: ... MICHELLE PAVER Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from.... LORDE We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added RONALD REAGAN One year, we purchased pulse rate monitors, because we teach the children early on how to monitor th... JENNIFER PEHMOELLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without t... MICHAEL MOORCOCK There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when ... 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PRINCE At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thi... FREDRIK BACKMAN So many people get to appreciate each other and their culture, and see how different but how similar... LIBBY TRAUBMAN We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deepl... JULIAN BAGGINI There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private l... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and h... SUSAN ORLEAN I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we'r... RICARDO SEMLER Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should thin... ABIGAIL WASHBURN Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present your... MARK DRISCOLL We are all many things. Sometimes people get used to us being the one thing they most expect from us... SCOTT STABILE Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often no... ANTHONY TROLLOPE We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures... GILLIAN FLYNN Live as you. It may seem simple and obvious. Yet, is it? How many times a day are we changing how we... AKIROQ BROST Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told fr... MELISSA MCCARTHY We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are. KEITH AUBRY A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other peopl... ABEL FERRARA Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS How any person decides to emphasize strengths and mitigate weaknesses is something people have to fi... DANIEL TAMMET If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... LEE UNKRICH How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're ... KATIE MCGARRY There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana i... DANA ROHRABACHER Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any n... VIRGINIA WOOLF Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters ... MORRIS GLEITZMAN I'm amazed at how many out of area people are registering. We have people from Montana, Utah, the Ba... DAVID REED I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not goi... JAIRAM RAMESH In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Wel... HILLARY CLINTON I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they real... ROBERT WINSTON It seems that the days of public modesty and concern about how we look are far from us. I will not s... JOHN PATRICK HICKEY . . . I do not see how it is possible that creatures in such different positions and with such diffe... WILLIAM JAMES There are so many more hourly people than salaried, and they get more of the press than us. That's w... DAVID LAMBERT There have been many, many paintings of Theseus and the Minotaur, as it is one of the more popular m... JOHN ROCCO I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain ... CARLA GUGINO Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each... JAVIER BARDEM One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people ... ROBERT KRAFT It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organizatio... CHARLES GIANCARLO When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Ser... AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many dif... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Evolution is far more than a belief or an educated guess about how people came to be as they are. It... ALAN LESHNER How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the stor... KENNETH BRANAGH You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big op... BEN CARSON Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to ol... S. JAY OLSHANSKY I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have ... CHARLIE SHEEN I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoon... ALISON JACKSON All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ... MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more ... MAYA ANGELOU It's hard to be a minority. 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