Trent Reznor Quotes
I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I'm one of those guys that gets bored with things pretty fast, so I've got to keep it mixed up.
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What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
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'ER' was so huge that whatever I did coming back to television, I'd have to feel as strongly about.
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When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
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I can still make a living with touring. And maybe you buy a t-shirt. And I would rather 10 million people get my record and listen to it for free than 500,000 that I coerced to pay $15 for it, you know?
