Ed Slott Quotes

A Roth 401(k) or a Roth IRA takes the uncertainty out of predicting the future.

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• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm not a psychiatrist.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Psychiatrist

• I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Family
  • Why
  • Want

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Lord
  • Pure

• The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Problem
  • Serious
  • Consequences

• As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Help
  • Best
  • Shopping

• The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Law
  • Church

• I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time

• Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Sacrifice

• I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Writing
  • Reading

• What you don't do is as important as what you do.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Important

• I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.

  

  Charles Best

• I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • People
  • Important
  • Attention

• When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

  

  Loni Love
  • Up

• I think we're just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Live
  • Opinion
  • Revolution

• We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Time
  • Future
  • Freedom

• A Roth 401(k) or a Roth IRA takes the uncertainty out of predicting the future.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Future
  • Predicting