Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can’t think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
Sci-fi and horror feel so relevant to me as a woman.
It’s always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.
To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.
I think, having done ‘The Princess Diaries,’ it was a fun experience, and it’s cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It’s always on. It’s kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.
I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you’d never do is relevant.
In a multi-party democracy, many issues which you want – or do not want – will be raised. It is for us to make it relevant or not so relevant with our answers.
I’d say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It’s as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn’t say it’s something we spend more time on than any other genre.
By using our international network, utilising templates and thinking ahead with pre-planned pages that contain carefully selected relevant news, we can deliver stories that other people just don’t have. And that will release resources for the web.
Trevor Noah is a great, relevant young comic, and Comedy Central is smart to stand by him.
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
I don’t follow the relevant trends anymore. But I love Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s style, I think she is timeless, chic, and most importantly, classy.
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.
Indeed, many Singaporeans hope the opposition can unite and coordinate their efforts so as to become a more relevant political force.
When high-growth companies slow down, growth and momentum junkies often sell indiscriminately, which can create great opportunities for value investors. Just be careful not to anchor on the stock’s previous price or earnings multiple, which are no longer relevant.
I have litigated in my private life, and I will say there are many reasons why a judge could be recused from a case that have nothing to do with their prior decisions or rulings on facts which may be relevant.
The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can’t just lead quiet lives.
We’ve found that people crave a thoughtful exchange of ideas in a long-form interview, which is why the tradition that we have inherited from the original ‘Firing Line’ is relevant again. Our program has impacted the way the public understands our policymakers in Washington and beyond.
All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others’ content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.
TV is still a ‘push’ medium – we are broadcasting into any home or business with basic cable, and depending on what’s happening in the world, we have a wider audience, from news junkies to very sporadic viewers. On TV, you want your reporting to be valuable to that entire audience and be relevant.
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.
Love is one of the most powerful and most dangerous things I’ve ever encountered and, within the same breath, one of the most beautiful and relevant journeys of my life.
First and foremost when you’re doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you’re living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It’s hard to be funny in that realm.
Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don’t know if that’s relevant. But she’s a person who plays people. In other words, not everything has to be an over-the-top Broadway musical to get my attention, but it certainly helps.
The SAT is not particularly relevant to my life.
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
It’s always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot of people as time goes by. And it’s not just nostalgia. It’s a feeling of it’s really relevant to their lives, even though it’s 20 or 25 years old or more.
Rappers have always thought they were better than me. And the media has always thought that I was not relevant to hip-hop, so therefore, they didn’t have to mention me.
I think it’s perhaps fair to say we’ve been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there’s nothing we have said that isn’t relevant to the present situation.
‘Aurat’ is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women.
I need some time to write songs and work on my thing, but I’m just living my life and doing family stuff and letting inspiration come when it comes. But I also don’t feel a desperate need to keep pushing myself into people’s faces to stay cool and relevant.
Whereas his father would deliver rambling lectures that were heavy on gold and often disconnected from the political news of the moment, Rand Paul communicates a desire to make himself relevant to the GOP conversation.
All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.
When you’re trying to do something because you’re trying to stay relevant or it’s the thing to do, then it’s a chore. But when you just have fun with it, then it’s fun.
Our aspiration must be to reform, upgrade and enlarge our education system – and to make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation.
Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that’s the part that’s both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I’m losing money.
I wanted to know if the ‘Iliad’ in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!
I go through my tweets while writing and be like, ‘Oh, this has staying power and is still relevant.’
All at once, funding was gone due to the Mansfield Amendment, which was a reaction to the Vietnam War. In the minds of the local RLE administrators, research in gravitation and cosmology was not in the military’s interest, and support was given to solid-state physics, which was deemed more relevant.
When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It’s like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.
I am often asked what the future holds for Emotion AI, and my answer is simple: it will be ubiquitous, engrained in the technologies we use every day, running in the background, making our tech interactions more personalized, relevant, authentic and interactive.
To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet, and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based.
I’d be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don’t see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there’s a God.
Our job is not to dictate the policies of our candidates or even influence them but simply to articulate them in the most clear and meaningful way to the relevant audience.
