Quotes About Relevance

I've dropped a lot of race humor from my routines, not because I think it is in bad taste, but because I don't want to be guilty of telling old jokes.

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

With 'Hamilton,' what's cool about the show is that even super-old white people come to see the show and hang on every word, it's that good.

Every time has its own 'Hamlet.'

Talmud, the Halakha, the Qur'an, the Bible, the (Sikh) Granth Sahib—as "true and accurate in all particulars."4 How could a dying religious attitude, scheduled for elimination by the end of the twentieth century—already, as it were, being measured for its coffin—dance away from the dirge with renewed vitality? More pointedly, how could this escape

Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.

Would I buy this today, at this price?" If not, you may not want to own it any longer.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. Peter Drucker

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

We are finally no longer critically relevant to the world economy. The rest of the globe is strong enough to decouple from us. We, our country, our city, our infrastructure, are in a state of freefall.

Everything that concerns you interests me greatly, as you will perhaps one day come to appreciate.

Arbus would later insist, 'the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture

The only good classification is a living classification.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

El hecho de que un creyente sea más feliz que un escéptico no es más relevante que el que un borracho sea más feliz que un sobrio.

Yes, my dear, yes," said Mr. Lammeter; "one feels that as one gets older. Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.

Instead, progressives should speak in terms of the common concerns of voters—for instance, how a policy will let you send your daughter to college, or how it will let you launch your own business. 12.

The consequence is that arguing simply in terms of facts—how many people have no health insurance, how many degrees Earth has warmed in the last decade, how long it's been since the last raise in the minimum wage—will likely fall on deaf ears. That's not to say the facts aren't important. They are extremely important.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

I'm not a one-hit wonder as some suggest. I've had a couple of hits, but still, all of my hits were in the '70s. There was pretty much nothing in the '80s, '90s, or in the first full decade into the next millennium.

If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the style more relevant for them next year?

When I go for a project, I wonder what underpinning a project will have that's going to give the audience some emotional access to it.