Trent Reznor Quotes

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• Change
• Decision
• Devices
• Pessimistic

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Artists are like everybody else.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Like
  • Artists
  • Everybody

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Perfect
  • Share
  • Salad

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Movie
  • See

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Afghanistan

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• You don't know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Good
  • Know
  • Bike

• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Body

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Responsibility

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Change
  • Decision
  • Devices