Trent Reznor Quotes

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
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• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

  

  Jack Layton
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• However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

  

  Aaron Klug
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• It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.

  

  T.I.
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• I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Strong
  • Honor
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• Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Country
  • American
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• The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Unknown
  • Surface
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• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
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• None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Live
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• I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Peace
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• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
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• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
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• An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Time
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• I think we take a long hard look at ourselves, and it certainly starts with me. ... It seemed like we were kind of all of us together on it.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Together

• The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Heart
  • Stop
  • Dance

• When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Character