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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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
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Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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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.
