Quotes About Relevance

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Nobodies from the past are being elevated to some of the most important people who ever lived.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other

what are called the middle schools is still very unsatisfactory. Few teachers realize that the purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of some dates and facts, that the student is not interested in knowing the exact date of a battle or the birthday of some marshal or other, and not at all - or at least only very insignificantly - interested in knowing when the crown of his fathers was placed on the brow of some monarch. These are certainly not looked upon as important matters.

Poetry never stood a chance of standing outside history.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think that The Darkness is a joke, and that's, unfortunately, exactly what the world wants.