Ed Slott Quotes

You used to think that you couldn't afford to make a mistake, but now it's really true. You need a ruling if you make a mistake and it can be corrected, but now it's just more important that you do things right, or that your adviser does everything right.

Ed Slott

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• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Better
  • Competition

• Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Real
  • Story
  • Where

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
  • Brain
  • Hands

• You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Dedication

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Ignorance

• There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Actors
  • Stars
  • Show

• Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Great
  • Live

• I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Different

• Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Serious

• I don't like to be pigeonholed; I don't like when people won't see me for something because they don't think I can do it. I always feel like, at least give me the shot.

  

  Khandi Alexander
  • People

• One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Time
  • Age
  • College

• I don't have those superstitious ticks that people have to have something for the road. I like to have good food on the bus, my own pillow, and onesies. Onesies are a must.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

  

  Pervez Musharraf

• I'm a sucker for a good country song.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Good
  • Country
  • Song

• Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Man
  • Knows

• Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Song
  • Mistake
  • Inspiration

• We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • America
  • Mistake
  • Giant

• You used to think that you couldn't afford to make a mistake, but now it's really true. You need a ruling if you make a mistake and it can be corrected, but now it's just more important that you do things right, or that your adviser does everything right.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Mistake
  • Corrected
  • Adviser