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

• Music
• Failure
• Hero
• Statement
• Dark Period

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

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

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• 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
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Looking

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

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

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

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• 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
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

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

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Government
  • Growth
  • Should

• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Easy
  • Gift

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

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
  • Say
  • Uncles

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

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Mind
  • Manners
  • Even

• 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
  • People
  • Live
  • Adventure

• 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
  • Trust
  • Should

• 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
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Dad

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

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Love
  • Game
  • Day-Out

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

  

  Ice Cube
  • Rap
  • Something
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Book

• 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!

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • House
  • Wife

• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Space

• There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • World
  • Music
  • Writing

• A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Truth
  • Regret
  • Statement

• Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Failure
  • Discipline
  • Piano

• 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