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.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• Life
• Good
• Balance

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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.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Color

• I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • Drink
  • Bed

• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Attention
  • Always
  • See

• 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.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• 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.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Serious
  • Choose

• 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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Father
  • City

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• 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.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Career
  • Know

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• 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.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Live
  • Die
  • Single

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Sound
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

• I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Inspiration
  • Chicago

• The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Kids
  • Son

• 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.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Life
  • Good
  • Balance