Trent Reznor Quotes
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.
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Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
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Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.
