Quotes About Relevance

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good unless it be applied.

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.

There's no reason to hide anything; there's just timeliness of age and what's appropriate.

I feel lucky, where I'm not 'famous' famous. I'm not someone that everyone kind of knows for no reason. If people know who I am, they like me because if they didn't like me, they forgot about me.

I'd rather have two minutes of screen time and have purpose than have 20 minutes of screen time in a separate track that makes no sense to the story.

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

Nobody cares about '60 Minutes.' Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn't that amazing?

This thing where Daniel Cormier wants to fight Brock Lesnar; I know he wants to make money, but it doesn't make any sense. The only one who wants to see that fight or make that fight is him. Nobody else wants to see that.

Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me.

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

I am not interested to do a five-minute role in a film which is not exciting to me.

They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

When you come out, and if you're saying something worth taking note of, then people will give you their ears. If you're not, it's whatever.

People want new faces. And I don't blame them. It's just getting difficult for us oldsters to get anyone to take notice.

Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.