Quotes About Relevance

deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory.

Belli bir doneme ait filmler yeni bicimleriyle yeni bicimleriyle yeniden gundeme getirilmeye calisilmaktadir. Oysa bu iki film tipi arasindaki fark, gercek insanla ona benzeyen otomat arasindaki farki gibidir. | 75

But the object cannot be allowed to escape from ephemerality or from fashion.

L'art ne meurt pas parce qu'il n'y en a plus ; il meurt parce qu'il y en a trop.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

What sex are you?" Doesn't matter does it? After all that's your problem." If I keep you, what will happen?" You'll have a difficult, different time." Is it worth it?" That's up to you.

When a woman alone is no longer of any interest to the opposite sex, she is only visible where she has some purpose.

I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the opinions of their century, their country, and their society. For that very reason, a freethinker or philosopher today would have been nothing but a fanatic at the time of the League.* One must not write for such readers, if one wishes to live beyond one's own age.

It's a dead issue. These days you can hardly get people to read about a live issue. People are issued out.

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time. That

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.