"By advancing the fairy tale that only an American woman was on the same level as male Russian chess masters, Netflix enhanced the dramatic impact of its story."
"We cooperate because we believe in imaginary stories about gods and nations and money even though these things exist only in our own imagination."
"Never, and I mean never, lose the right to tell our version of the story."
"Archaeology has shed new light on this ancient landscape far from shattering a myth it has enriched an epic tale of struggle and survival."
"Nothing is as we are told, the narratives we are fed by mainstream culture are distorted and false."
"I think these stories need to be told. I hope you see more of those. You start producing stories like that."
"I think a big part of the appeal in the west of conspiracy theorizing is these deeply embedded narratives about the Divine conspiring against us."
"I think lab leak is true... I would lean in the direction of Jon Stewart."
"A great number of myths and legends have to do with the stars."
"Often in the stories we read of gods they come down from heaven and fall in love with Earthly maidens."
"By examining the manipulation of societal taboos, Carlson invites viewers to reflect on the forces shaping cultural narratives and to question the authenticity of these changes in public sentiment."
"I think that the thing that is most important to me...is the cultural narratives that we are told..."
"I think there are still fairies and that they will save us."
"Because usually, it’s the default. You know, Luke Cage is fundamentally a black American narrative and cannot be transmuted."
"In other words, there might not be white narratives because there are just narratives."
"Sora is intrinsically good. New forms of medieval obscurantism are imaginary."
"The tenets of the Lost Cause consolidated themselves into a coherent mythology."
"The film seems to argue that assimilation is preferred over annihilation."
"Stories have been added to and embellished over the years."
"We should be giving young people an alternate set of Heroes."
"Thor's mythological battles with giants symbolized the man vs. nature conflict the Vikings encountered every day."
"They said the age of heroes would never come again. It will, it has to."
"I think the planet's been having visitations for as long as it's been here."
"The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity."
"When we reject the single story, we regain a kind of paradise."
"Finally, people will shut up about their white savior myth. This is just another white - no, it's not. Doesn't end that way at all."
"Good versus evil is one of them, right? We have storylines in society in the West that dominate about the hero and the individual."
"It is in the stories we cherish, in the legends we believe, and in the myths we retell that those contradictions are debated and our values are tested."
"Stories like myths, legends, fairy tales... have always grown and changed over time."
"The Dreamtime: stories pertaining to spirits and forces which created the earth."
"Narratives we learn a liquid, a nonminor kappa du coup de sal."
"Superstitions are narrative relics holding within their folds the essence of human curiosity, caution, and the Eternal dance with the unknown."
"The myths teach us about the way the world works and how to handle life."
"I think we are the storytellers we are the storytellers of the future."
"A myth is a story. Shaped by culture over time. It has a moral, a point it tries to communicate."
"History is complicated and constantly changing. A lot of the incorrect ideas about historical events in popular culture can be traced back to ideas that were considered legitimate decades or even centuries ago."
"A meaningful story explains how things came to be and contains moral lessons."
"Until the lion learns how to read and write every story will glorify the hunter." - African Proverb
"The much more pedestrian Horatio Alger is really the source of American ideology."
"I believe that's the best and probably the only way that we're gonna be able to combat this ancient aliens narrative and this great deception."
"50 Cent is simply mocking Puff, reinforcing homophobic tropes and narratives."
"Black successes are a part of what we need to be sharing and not just black tragedy."
"It's kind of like how the stories of king arthur and the britons are like written much later but they were all written as if they had the technology of that time."
"But how did we as a people allow our history to be written solely on the basis of a stranger's opinion?"
"Folklore and these oral traditions have reality to them."
"It's not just cultural exegesis, it's subverting and fulfilling cultural narratives."
"People don't write books and have conferences about the existence of Santa, as far as I know."
"Our mythic constructs are extremely powerful and extremely important and very difficult to abandon."
"Myths in some ways is even realer than history."
"It's really important for people to hear different narratives, different stories."
"We were living in narrative scarcity that we didn't have enough stories about us."