Quotes About Relevance

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

My generation probably didn't connect with 'The Wiz' the way that other generations did.

It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

Biblical names are hot again.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I don't particularly care to know the names of the people in the Freedom Caucus.

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

An authentic and honest brand narrative is fundamental today; otherwise, you will simply be edited out.

We want to grow NASCAR.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a person, what matters is not his political label or his nationality, but whether he is a person and whether his work is worth looking at.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.

What is past is not dead; it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers.

For something to exist from the point of view of the world, extrinsically, it must be able to influence things and things must be able to influence it. That is what it means to have causal power. When something can't make a difference to anything in the world or be influenced by anything in the world, it is causally impotent. Whether or not it exists makes no difference to anything.

We're raising the retirement age to seventy but at work you're a has-been at forty

A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.

We now know things about our nature that the founders of religion could not even begin to guess at, and that would have stilled their overconfident tongues if they had known of them. Yet again, once one has disposed of superfluous assumptions, speculation about who designed us to be designers becomes as fruitless and irrelevant as the question of who designed that designer.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.

books should go where they will be most appreciated, not sit unread, gathering dust on a foreign shelf, don't you agree?

One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, "Computers are irrelevant." Building

Gossip has a lifespan, that speculation eventually becomes old news, and is forgotten. - Rothen

What's that got to do with anything?