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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In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
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Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.
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Our history shows that what we must do is assert domination over the machine, to guide it so that it works for the values of our choice.
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The aim of the Constitutional Treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.
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It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.
