Quotes About Relevance

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But as time went by, fewer camera crews turned up at the gates each morning. After all, how many hours of drooling can an audience be expected to sit through? Gradually the LEP crews were downsized from a dozen to six and finally to a single officer per shift. Where could Opal Koboi go? the

People instinctively turn to the past to understand the present. But the questions the historian asks are given to him or her by the world they live in.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

you are unimportant to the important!

Although she hadn't realized it at the time, Charlotte now understood that proximity mattered.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

Today's young people suffer from an overdose of information processing and many of them are trying to come back from information to meaning processing to reinvent the meaning of their lives. Here again all they need is inner situational creativity.

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

It is not fit to spin out history with petty details.

Rejoy has several meanings, the first two of which are somewhat noble, and more than somewhat boring. The third meaning, however, is probably the most applicable one for most people, as so many of us cannot seem to enjoy things unless we possess them. Which explains the existence of shopping malls. Remord

Criticism is like pain. It's not fun but if it doesn't hurt, no one pays attention.

Opinions are a useless currency

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

Our role as historians is to ask, "What would these stories have conveyed to the people who first heard them?" Our role as readers is also to ask, "What do these stories mean to me, and what have they meant to my community and to my tradition over time and across the globe?

This book is an act of listening anew, of imagining what the parables would have sounded like to people who have no idea that Jesus will be proclaimed Son of God by millions, no idea even that he will be crucified by Rome. What would they hear a Jewish storyteller telling them? And why, two thousand years later, are these questions not only relevant, but perhaps more pressing than ever?

em pouco tempo poderemos ter o pesadelo de gerações que não conseguem entender a literatura atual porque não conhecem os clássicos que a procedem.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

I can't help but wonder...if it's such a big deal for a middle-aged white guy to feel important...What happens when he doesn't?

We have to assume that the people whose dwelling-places, artefacts, lives even, we are dealing with were rational, integrated, sane and sensible human beings. Then we look around at our own contemporaries and wonder how this belief can possibly be sustained.

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks, and then it disappears into thin air.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.