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• You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.

  Robert Adams

  Artist, Talking, Political

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• Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

  Roz Savage

  Ocean, Psychology, Important

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• There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

  Vaclav Havel

  Art, Ideas, Political

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

  Roddy Doyle

  Stories, Might, Matter

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• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Perfect, Lasts

  "Ollie (1987)". "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal., 1988.

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• I find that when one has worked long enough, technical know-how becomes almost irrelevant. In photography, it's not difficult to reach a technical level where you don't need to think about the technique any more. I think there is far too much literature and far too much emphasis upon the techniques of photography. The make of camera and type of film we happen to use has little bearing on the results.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Brooks Jensen, www.michaelkenna.net. October 2003.

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• As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.

  Bruce Hood

  Thinking, Worry, Ends

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• A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

  A.M. Homes

  Thinking, Talking, People

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books

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• After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.

  Irving Kristol

  Art, Believe, Book

  New York Times Magazine, March 28, 1971.

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• It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Important, Important Things

  "Kathryn Bigelow discusses role of "seductive violence" in her films". Interview with Michelle P. Perry, tech.mit.edu. March 16, 1990.

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• American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Zion, World, Debate

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• Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Skills, Becoming

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

  Dick Morris

  Politics, Misguided, Democrat

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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• If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

  Kevin Spacey

  Business Deals, Tv Shows, Ipads

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• But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Cutting, Irrelevance

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• I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

  Kevin Drew

  Differences, Bigs, Retiring

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

  Ethan Hawke

  Father, Thinking, Matter

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• For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Want, Denmark

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Religious, College, Rights

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”

  Lorde

  Rap, Thinking, Years

  "Discovery: Lorde". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

  Carol Anshaw

  Character, Gay, Assumption

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• I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.

  Seth Gordon

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Believe, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

  Marc Andreessen

  Guarantees That, Machines, Operating Systems

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