Trent Reznor Quotes
I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
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My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.
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This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.
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The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
