Trent Reznor Quotes
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
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I'm very self-critical.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.
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And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
