Quotes About Relevance

I think you only have to pull stunts if the content of your music is meaningless.

Music, dance sequences, action stunts are key parts in a commercial film but there has to be relatable content as well.

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of fashion, then you are deciding a woman can go out of fashion.

At the organisational level, our party has to really develop a new style of connecting with the people. We have to also look at the way we project our programmes, our policies.

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on your mind besides American history. What I have to do is make this as compelling as possible.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music. You might hear a song with a catchy beat, but what's it about? It's not empowering or helping anyone.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

Sensationalism is entertaining, but substance is what matters.

The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.

You can window-dress and promote a movie as much as you like but if the movie hasn't got substance and isn't an exciting movie, people won't watch it.

I don't mind being in the public eye as long as I am doing something substantial.

It's important, at least for me, that while we're entertaining, there's also something substantive to talk about.

What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.

To succeed, the Conservative Party must be at home in modern Britain.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

argue that the physical world matters no less today, but we are in denial about its power and relevance. We seek to control it, to hold it steady, and to marginalize it ideologically by worshipping Silicon Valley and elevating the value and power of information. We

Il n'est pas sûr, enfin, qu'en voulant donner une sanction sociale à la dignité, Améry ne l'ait pas confondue avec ce qu'on appellerait plutôt l'honneur : celui-ci consiste bien en une forme de reconnaissance accordée par la société en fonction de ses codes ; celle-là, en revanche, l'individu isolé peut aussi l'éprouver.

One outcome of this lack of appreciation of the relevance of epistemology for the study of psychology and psychological development is that epistemological assumptions often remain tacit. Practically, this amounts to many psychologists basing their theories on assumptions that originate in the empiricist tradition (Piaget, 1970/1972a, p. 10).

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