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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

- Lynne Cheney

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.

- Linda Chavez

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.

- Leila Janah

I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

- Larry King

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

- Lee Kuan Yew

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

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

- John Reid

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

- John Zorn

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

- Jeanette Winterson

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.

- Ada Yonath

One of the sad things about retiring is that you just become increasingly irrelevant. The world flows around you, and you don't seem to be impacting it any longer.

- John Mackey

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

- James Dyson

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

- Henry Paulson

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

- Hillary Clinton

Men are irrelevant.

- Fay Weldon

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant.

- Edward St Aubyn

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

- Elena Kagan

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.

- Danny Danon

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.

- Craig Venter