Quotes About Relevance

Ironically, the only two "relevan[t]" metrics that the Court does identify are "how and why" a gun control regulation "burden[s the] right to armed self-defense." In other words, the Court believes that the most relevant metrics of comparison are a regulation's means (how) and ends (why)—even as it rejects the utility of means-end scrutiny.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

Shit don't mean shit

She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine.

The most important things to remember about backstory are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting. Stick to the parts that are, and don't get carried away with the rest. Life stories are best received in bars, and only then an hour or so before closing time, and if you are buying.

Everything we do means something.

Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!

The garbage can is for things that have no importance. If it did have some value, it no longer has any.

To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

It's one thing to be the greatest; it's another thing to be necessary. The best are the most necessary: those who take less than they give and love more than they hate.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

People don't always want quality. A good book is not always successful and a successful one is not always good.

Wouldn't a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?

Age is an issue of mind over matter," Brixton recalled. "If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad ' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Overlong sermons break in upon family concerns and often call off the thoughts from the sermon to the pudding at home that is in danger of being overboiled.