Top 115 Irrelevant Quotes

If ever I wanted to marry, it would have been only Kunal and I said it is irrelevant because I always felt I am married to him.

There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant in those moments. Of course, we can’t stay in that state. We’re not here to be blissed out all the time.

Having ground my teeth at educational theorists who say Shakespeare is irrelevant to inner-city children, I was overjoyed to be there when a class of 12-year-olds who had studied Twelfth Night were asked if they wanted to see it performed. A forest of hands shot up.

Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be steered towards popular culture like hip-hop, new media and film on the basis that they will find older art forms such as opera or ballet irrelevant.

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.

You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they’re entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with – so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

If you lose, you can’t lead. If you don’t lead, you’re irrelevant. Winning is what it’s all about in politics.

I figure no matter what interview I do, the real good ‘journalists‘ are going to find the completely irrelevant quotes that will drum up some controversy and stick it on their page to get some clicks and completely miss the real context of what the interview is about. That’s what we do nowadays and call it ‘journalism.’

Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths.

The people who don’t like me are completely irrelevant to me, just as I’m irrelevant to them.

We live in a funny time. If you don’t go corporate, you can’t compete. You’re relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

I love reading fashion magazines, buying handbags, the usual things – but when you’re in the moment and focusing on setting up the car, how you look is so irrelevant.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

As far as my mental approach, I really think it’s just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life story across 5,000 years and you chart the evolution of our conflicted relationship with sex and with the female body.

Distance and difference become irrelevant as our technology connects youth from Vancouver, Toronto, Iqaluit, Attawapiskat, Delhi, Nairobi – anywhere – to learn from and about each other.

I’ve seen a lot of artists fall out with their labels and be irrelevant when they come back.

My opponents are irrelevant. It’s all about which Rob turns up. If I get it right, I can win anything.

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America’s self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.

These little daily choices that we’re so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‘irrelevant,’ or consumed by ‘paranoid anti-Americanism,’ but perhaps not wise.

Java the language is almost irrelevant. It’s the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I’ve seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers for Ada, and they all work. Not many people use them, but it doesn’t matter: they all work.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We’re just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

I think age is neither an asset nor challenge; it all depends on how you present yourself. Age is sort of irrelevant.

Every book I’ve written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

What better example than the World Cup is there of the fact that individual people are irrelevant while impersonal structures are invariant?

The fact that, almost a century after refrigeration made salt-preserved foods irrelevant, we are still eating them demonstrates the affection we have for salt.

There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant… We need big change. We’ve got to get back control of our country.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it’s like they almost become irrelevant.

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn’t reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea that the past is irrelevant to tomorrow – and tomorrow is all that matters. But the past is part of who we are.

Who is Allen West? What is Allen West doing with his time? He’s the most irrelevant person in America.

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

I get asked why there aren’t more female directors all the time. I’m kind of reluctant to talk about it. That’s not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It’s just that there are so many mitigating factors.

I don’t think that it’s ever irrelevant to know where you came from, to know your history, and to improve upon your history.

When it comes time for basketball, everything else is kind of irrelevant.

I did GCSE’s and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I’ve always had an eye on life beyond playing, irrelevant of the period in my career.

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.

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.

I am happy with how my career has gone. What other people want to make of it is irrelevant to me.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Your gender becomes irrelevant when you are in a performance-based environment.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

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

My sexuality is irrelevant.

You don’t look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it’s irrelevant in any situation – I don’t care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

Wherever people come from, that’s irrelevant as far as I’m concerned. What is important is that they bring a skill or a talent or something that’s going to benefit America.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

I think my perspective on my age is really irrelevant.

You know what somebody else’s fundraise metrics are to you? Irrelevant. You know what your own last round post was? Irrelevant. Yes, I know, not legally, because of those pesky rights and preferences. But emotionally, trust me: it is irrelevant now. We even have a name for this – valuation nostalgia.

Market mechanisms are totally irrelevant when resources are used to serve a larger purpose, especially for the underserved, unserved, or marginalised.

It’s irrelevant whether it’s a big match or not. It’s about focusing on your job at the time. You’re still trying to do things as well as you can.

There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don’t, video games are irrelevant. They think all video games must be too difficult.

That’s all small talk is – a quick way to connect on a human level – which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it’s worth making the effort.

I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it’s so irrelevant and uncontrollable.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

People who buy your product or use your service don’t care how tall or short you are, or what gender you are, or your age. It is irrelevant. That is not the basis on which your product is judged.

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence – you should just let kids crack on with it.

Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They’re not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don’t have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, it’s become increasingly irrelevant.

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

It’s not always easy being a full-time feminist – especially as a young woman – when you’re constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I’m on the defense all the time.

Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.

Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they’re in safe hands.

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

Good leaders make people’s strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

They’ve been irrelevant to me, the print media, because my link does not depend upon the menial minds of the scribblers in Canberra or anywhere else.

I’m no longer the young woman I was playing before, and I’m in a profession where that continuum that is me is irrelevant to most people – they’re meeting me for the first time, seeing me for the first time, and they’re seeing an old woman, so that’s what I’ve got to start being.

The old 20th-century political model of Left vs. Right is now basically irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and national, global or local. All over the world, this is not the main struggle.

I’ve seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.

Our priority as a team is to finish first and second, irrelevant of the order.

I think records are irrelevant, but I’m being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

My sexuality, in terms of ‘Strictly‘ or whatever else I do in my life, ought to be as irrelevant as the length of my big toe.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

I’ve always said, ‘I don’t want to be irrelevant.’

I don’t like the word ‘experiment‘ in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

If I’ve learned anything from social media, it’s truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it’s quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Men are irrelevant.

It’s a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn’t matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It’s considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

I guess I make a lot of stupid comments that are, like, pretty irrelevant to a lot of things.

I believe that the worst thing the liberals did in this country was the Lyndon Johnson welfare system, which broke up millions of marriages by funneling taxpayers‘ money solely to the woman. That made the father and husband irrelevant.

As long as it was George Groves in the opposite corner with his world title, the date was irrelevant to me. I was prepared to wait as long as it took to get that fight for the world title.

Gender is irrelevant, and if you love somebody, you love somebody.

My feminist values are rooted in my socialist values. The number of women CEOs in Britain’s biggest companies is irrelevant if they pay their women workers poverty wages or discriminate against black employees.

The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.

It’s irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It’s all about what works for the team.

I genre-hop quite a lot. I love manipulating genre and deconstructing it and making it irrelevant. Genreless music is great because it means you get to write in any genre that you like.

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

‘Jaago Zara’ was never going to be irrelevant. It had great lyrics, and was a great song even back in the day.

I do my research the same as everyone else – I watch games relentlessly and try to be the best that I can be. It should be irrelevant whether I’m male or female, so as long as I work hard and try my best at it, then more we keep speaking about it, then we can eradicate it from the game.

There’s barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn’t had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked the average person, they might think that maths is just difficult, irrelevant and uninteresting.

Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn’t that playwrights aren’t being paid enough. It’s that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.

We believe the size is almost irrelevant to investment success. Our size has certainly not diminished our enthusiasm for investing in our funds, our ability to find or create opportunities, or our performance outlook.

Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.

Your body is not your art – it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.

A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they’re not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

It’s not always about reaching the widest audience. It’s about how you reach people, and in that sense, there’s no difference between a little room in a back basement with ten people if you hit them hard enough, there’s a nobility to reaching ten people. They are not irrelevant because they are less than 10,000.

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know – that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn’t fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don’t feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

Whether I am the Champion or not is irrelevant to me. I am not attached to it.