Quotes About Relevance

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

Honesty is not necessarily interesting. I don't want to hear about your dreams or your acid trips, probably unless you make them really interesting.

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.

I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

Just like a Led Zeppelin album stands up today, we hope our album stands up in 10 or 20 years.