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• In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

  David Cassidy

  Hot, Actors, Kind

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• I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Track, Needs

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• Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

  Stedman Graham

  Thinking, People, Understanding

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 22, 2006.

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• Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

  Walter Gilbert

  Writing, Exercise, Ability

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• I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

  Fawn Hall

  Iran, Details, Initiative

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• If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the style more relevant for them next year?

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Years, Style, Proud

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• In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

  Michael Kinsley

  Thinking, People, Events

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• But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

  Ted Nelson

  Moving, Topics, Computer

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• From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Interesting, Childhood, Understanding

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• If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.

  Warren Spector

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

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• Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Technology, Years, Forever

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• When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Long, Negative, Espn

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

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• When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Thank God, Trying

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  Bill Nighy

  Kindness, Regret, Compassion

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• I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

  Edward Norton

  Ideas, Dramatic, Feels

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2010.

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• Besides film, I'd like to be the young Regis. That would be great. Going back and forth from L.A. to New York. Doing stuff on food. Doing stuff on kids. Just talking about issues that are relevant. Doing things on the Olympic Games.

  Apolo Ohno

  New York, Kids, Talking

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• I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Philosophy, Book, Eye

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• To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.

  Marco Rubio

  Ideas, Issues, Way

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• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  Salman Rushdie

  Growing Up, Kids, Class

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, What Matters, Trying

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

  Howard Schultz

  Bystanders, Mediocrity, Starbucks

  "Starbucks legend delivers recovery by thinking smaller". Interview with David Teather, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Order, Way, Profit

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• The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

  George Lucas

  Kings, Years, Today

  "Lucas donates $1 million for MLK memorial". www.today.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Everyday, Deals

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