America Quote by Kenneth Anger Download Open image “Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.” — Kenneth Anger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Generations Legends Modern Mythology
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that are fundamentally… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or… — Michael Scott Copy Share
I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does. — Iris Smyles Copy Share Image
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological. — H. Richard Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.” — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Lucifer is the patron saint of the visual arts. Color, form-all these are the work of Lucifer. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is fall asleep, and you can have fantastic vision. I know Baudelaire and people like that enhance their dreams with opium or something. But films are very constructed - they're like architecture. They're pieced together, glued together. To me,… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share
I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
I hate to say that, but the past was much more fascinating. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop of actors.… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
“In fireworks are released, all the explosive pyrotechnics of a dream. The inflammable desires, dampened by day under the cold water of consciousness, are… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
I try to remember dreams, and occasionally I'll make a note or two in a notebook if it's something extra interesting. They do mean… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center.… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. The 2011 military budget - almost matching that of the rest of the world combined - is higher in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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