Quotes About Relevance

Advertising and content have always been bound together - in print, on television, and on the web. Sure, you can skip the ad - just flip the page, or press 'ffwd' on your DVR. But great advertising, as I've long argued, adds value to the content ecosystem, and has as much a right to be in the conversation as does the publisher and the consumer.

Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.

Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It's like a wedding - give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!

Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.

One posthumous measure of a person's life is how often you imagine his impossible return to deal with some event he never lived to encounter. You picture his reactions, his advice, his sage commentary and humorous asides. For instance, I think about Mark Twain's hypothetical take on current events several times a week.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

Fashion week is always going to be necessary, but it's not going to be for everybody.

'SNL' ain't been relevant since Jim Belushi. It's on every week; it's not funny. They need to find some black women to put on there to make it funny.

We're in this industry, we feel like we need to be plugged into a news cycle all day long. You feel like if you're not commenting on the news 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you're not going to be relevant.

I think the superstar thing is completely arbitrary. It's all about who had a movie that did well one weekend. Then, if you have a movie that doesn't do well the next weekend, then, all of the sudden, you've fallen from whatever. So it doesn't really mean anything for me.

Sometimes a polemic tweeter is more important than a normal view.

All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

And more and more, Joe Biden, from the Democrats' perspective, looks expendable. He's disposable. He is political picnic cutlery - if you will.

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

I'm politically incorrect. I don't get into politics like that. I speak about what I know and what effects me personally, and effects my folks.

Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.

I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a product of pop culture. I'm a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.