Isabel Allende
Novelist
"You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not."
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Legends
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Kobe Bryant
Professional Basketball Player
"Heroes come and go, but legends are forever."
Tony Wilson
Music Producer, Entrepreneur
"When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend."
Joey Barton
Footballer
"Just heard Paul Scholes has retired, best I’ve ever played against by a mile. Most technically gifted player in english history. Legend."
Alan Lee
Illustrator
"I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)"
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"Maybe I really could be one of the greatest of all time. Who doesn't want to be a legend, right?"
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"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."
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"I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis."
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"[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man."
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"A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive."
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"If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne."
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"Legend remains victorious in spite of history."
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"After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'."
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"The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin"
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"After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear."
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"So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship."
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"The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human."
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"A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else."
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"I, personally, liked the legend."
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"At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth."
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"Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things"
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"I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not."
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"A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture."
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"To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old."
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"Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith."
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