Trent Reznor Quotes
I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick–fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.
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The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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When I got signed to the 'Fader' Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
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Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
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I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.
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I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
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I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick–fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.
