Trent Reznor Quotes

Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

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• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

  

  Sam Waterston
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• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
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• It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

  

  Barbara Castle
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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.

  

  Uday Kotak
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• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Why
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• Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.

  

  Barry Marshall
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• I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

  

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• I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

  

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• I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

  

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• Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

  

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• Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

  

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• Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.

  

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• What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.

  

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• I didn't know anything about fashion. You would see me in the biggest sweater with jeans or the tightest elastic pants. Not nice clothes. My mom took me a lot to consignment stores when I was younger, and I never really got to go to fancy high-class stores, so... vintage was like a step up.

  

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  • Up
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• ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.

  

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• Bowie mattered to me. He reinvented himself so many times - it must have been a daring statement to do that, risking failure. And hanging out with him and seeing him like that - he's my dad's age, born in the same month - when you find someone who's been through a really dark period, which most of his music I care about is from, Low, Lodger, "Heroes" era.... But he came out of it and made something that mattered.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Failure
  • Hero