Trent Reznor Quotes
I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.
Garry Kasparov -
I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.
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Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures
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We need to create shareholder value. That is why I am here. That is what I need to do.
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Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.
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I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
