Trent Reznor Quotes

It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

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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.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Warm

• 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.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Want
  • Me
  • Fall

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Past
  • Myself

• Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Goals

• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Soul

• Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• 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.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• 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.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Normal

• 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.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Reason

• Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Stand

• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Party
  • Everyone
  • Table

• 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.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Story
  • News
  • Cheers

• I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Marriage
  • Exercise
  • Torture

• I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • People
  • Long
  • Focus

• There is a perception that the Chinese started out downtrodden and abused in the 19th century and gradually rose to the top of society as model minorities, and you see them winning Nobel Prizes and getting into our best colleges. But it is not a linear progression. Things don't always get better.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Society
  • Winning
  • Model

• However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

  

  George Coyne
  • People
  • Religious
  • Successful

• The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal. (p. 352)

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.

  

  Joseph Abboud
  • Family
  • Movies
  • Clothes

• Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from childhood that I named Mama Bear because, actually, I wanted to be the mama.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Remember
  • Childhood

• It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails