Irrelevant Quotes
375 quotes by 324 authors
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First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we…
— William J. Clinton
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Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable...one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a…
— George C. Marshall
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Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are…
— Naomi Weisstein
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Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work.…
— Nick Cave
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There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if they…
— Ken Bates
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Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures…
— Peter Watts
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I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many…
— River Phoenix
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I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes…
— Jean-Luc Godard
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There's so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. People try to say to me, 'I…
— Miley Cyrus
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the…
— Aldous Huxley
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When objects are presented within the context of art (and until recently objects always have been used) they are as eligible for aesthetic consideration as…
— Joseph Kosuth
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People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is…
— Larry Mullen, Jr.
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The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I…
— Laura Marling
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A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
— Charles Lamb
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Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life…
— Hannah Arendt
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Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge…
— Abdul Kalam
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I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.…
— John Zorn
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Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy…
— Paul Robeson
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