Trent Reznor Quotes

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

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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.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Talent

• I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Marriage
  • Cheating
  • Label

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Conflict
  • Him

• A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Different
  • Character

• The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Children
  • Community
  • Sacrifice

• For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Timing
  • Austin

• We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
  • Real
  • Money

• It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Propaganda

• Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Change
  • Day

• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tennis

• When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Real
  • Picture

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Respect
  • Financial
  • Safety

• Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

  

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