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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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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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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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.
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There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.
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I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
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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.
