Trent Reznor Quotes
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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Roman is my alter ego. He's mean. *He says the things I can't say.
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
