Trent Reznor Quotes
I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Justice is revenge.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution.
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If I can go out there and be everywhere on the field, that's what I can control.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.
