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Quotes About Relevance

Craig, where are you?" 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.
~ Ned Vizzini
Craig, where are you?" 'it's funny how people ask that as soon as they get you on the phone. I think it's a by-product of cell phones: people – girls and moms especially – want to nail you down in a 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.
~ Ned Vizzini
Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
marriage was an obsolete institution.
~ Neil Strauss
me as though I might need another analogy, which I didn't
~ Nelson DeMille
when set in its proper historical context, the present time appears less unnervingly unprecedented and more familiar.
~ Niall Ferguson
For some readers, I dare say, the word 'institution' still conjures up a Victorian vision of lunatic asylums: poor old Niall, he's in an institution now. That is not the kind of institution I mean. I am talking about, for example, political institutions, like the British Parliament or the American Congress. When we talk about
~ Niall Ferguson
Rising to his feet he said, 'If the heir to the throne has been assassinated, well, first of all we know nothing for certain, and secondly, it doesn't concern us in the least.'…
~ Niall Ferguson
propinquity to power is perceived to matter, especially in a time of crisis.
~ Niall Ferguson
If the government shuts down, nothing happens, and we all move on, because it just doesn't matter. Stasis in the government is actually good for all of us.
~ Chamath Palihapitiya
A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
~ Joel Osteen
Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.
~ Boots Riley
If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.
~ Ryan North
Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.
~ Gary Cole
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
~ Edie Falco
We don't remember everything that happens to us on a given day: sometimes, we remember something simply because it's emotional, while, at other times, we work our way through mundane details to figure out why something matters.
~ Maria Konnikova
I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I don't want music to be a museum.
~ Jens Lekman
I suppose I write music for people, not for the filing cabinet or the museum.
~ Mack Wilberg
I have always believed that there is no age factor to this music business. You are only as old as you feel and basically you can be a contender at any time.
~ Leo Sayer
I think women are taught in the music industry that once you're 35, you've expired, and I'm here to prove that factually incorrect.
~ Caroline Polachek
I feel that in the music industry there are so many artists it's easy to be forgotten because it's so cluttered.
~ Big Daddy Kane
In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
~ Randal Kleiser
No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
~ Walter Cronkite