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• I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

  Annie Baker

  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Hate, Thinking, Care

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

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• To me, money is absolutely irrelevant.

  Bruce Greenwald

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• To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

  Ernst Mach

  Laughter, Science, Soul

  Ernst Mach (2014). “History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Women, Silly

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• Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

  Stephen Harper

  Kyoto Protocol, Spending, Term

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• To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Technique

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• I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Thinking, Worry, Atheism

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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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• Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.

  Ai Weiwei

  Hands, Pyramids, People

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• I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

  Pam Gems

  Real, Thinking, Details

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• It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Teaching, Tasks

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• Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Struggle, Mass Destruction, Half

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• Reject without regret whatever seems on reflection wrongheaded, dull, destructive, or irrelevant to your vision. It’s just as important to be able to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful criticism as it is to be able to write.

  Janet Burroway

  Regret, Writing, Reflection

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• Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

  Alain de Botton

  Lying, Years, Year End

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mean, Needs, Today

  J.P. Moreland (2014). “Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul”, p.14, Tyndale House

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• But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

  Rick Moody

  Party, Paris, Important

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• Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

  Eric Fischl

  Education, Artist, Generations

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