Trent Reznor Quotes
It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
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I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Our government depends upon the rule of law.
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It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.
