Trent Reznor Quotes

When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

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• The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

  

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• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  

  Danica McKellar
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• I would never walk off any show.

  

  Randy Quaid
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• There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
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• People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.

  

  Ben Harper
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• Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

  

  Rick Astley
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• Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

  

  Yann Martel
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• Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

  

  Yann Martel
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• Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

  

  Yann Martel
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• The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.

  

  Zak Penn
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• The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

  

  Ian McDonald 21st Century Schizoid Band
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• Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

  

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• It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
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• To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.

  

  Adam Arkin
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• Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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• Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.

  

  Wally Byam
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• I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
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• When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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