Trent Reznor Quotes
MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
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There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
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We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
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Julius Peppers is a beast, man. I don't know how many pounds he outweighs me by... I still try to do things like him to make my game better.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
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When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence
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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
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I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.
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Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America…
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There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace.
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
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I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.
