Quotes About Relevance

The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats.

I think just loving people around you and looking after the people you love is what living is about and age is irrelevant.

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

The fact that, almost a century after refrigeration made salt-preserved foods irrelevant, we are still eating them demonstrates the affection we have for salt.

America's a gangbanger country. We got our gang, and everything else is irrelevant.

I closely follow football (and basketball and baseball) for the right reasons, not the alarmingly irrelevant ones.

It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.

The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it's still fresh every time you pick it up. That's also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.

Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.

Jay-Z just got that longevity. He can put out anything at any time and everybody will love it. He'll never get old.

I think there are bigger problems in the world than Jeremy Clarkson.

Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

I don't care about Joe Schmo with two Twitter followers saying bad things to me, but if the guy I'm sitting next to on the telecast thinks that way, that matters a lot to me.

Through the '80s, nobody cared about Johnny Cash.

What's strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

My essays… come home to men's business and bosoms.