Trent Reznor Quotes

I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

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• I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Now
  • Walk

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Old
  • Answer
  • Affirmative

• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Promise
  • Number
  • Transform

• The movie business is a big gamble.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Big

• Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Political
  • Funny

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Society
  • Sad

• I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Up
  • Children
  • Yourself

• People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Important
  • You

• I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • You
  • Understand
  • Tolerance

• Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Girl
  • Question

• I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Show
  • Tennessee
  • Marlon Brando

• When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Doing
  • Last

• I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails