Trent Reznor Quotes
I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
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How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.
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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.
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The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
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The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.
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I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.
