Quotes About Relevance

Being a part of 'Hamilton' is remarkably special. It's a very powerful show that has spectacular emotional and political relevance.

I got an invitation to speak in the European parliament and I met Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the U.N. I took those opportunities to talk about what I thought was right. That those people, who are more important and powerful than I am, think I'm relevant enough to give a speech is mind-blowing.

I hated history in school. I couldn't understand why one has to learn, what someone did hundred years ago. Battles, speeches, forming a nation - was something that bored me.

Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people.

You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play.

If you look at any league, they're all trying to figure out how to make the game more exciting, speed the game up, whatever it may be. In our case, it's the same.

Don't spend months building something without any idea if someone actually wants it.

Inside the noisy and chaotic modern information sphere, the message doesn't matter nearly as much as the messenger.

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.

I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who's told me that the story of 'Roots' isn't important.

If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice from only 100 years ago is ridiculous.

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

It's like, if you—people of a certain age—would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures.

at this point in their lives, neither one of them is important enough to kill, kidnap, or interrogate.

There are better versions of me, Jeremy. It's not like with people. With people you can argue and have tests and music reviews and wars to decide who's better, but with software, it's pretty clear. I get evolved beyond my version number, and then I'm useless.

It's funny how people ask that as soon as they get you on the phone. I think it's a byproduct of cell phones: people—girls and moms especially—want to nail you down in physical space. The fact is that you could be anywhere on a cell phone and it shouldn't be important where you are. But it becomes the first thing people ask.