Trent Reznor Quotes

For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Platform

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Justice
  • Better
  • Judges

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Guy
  • Perception
  • Hollywood

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Winning, you can overlook so many things.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Winning
  • Things

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Courage

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Idea
  • Fast

• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Same
  • Stock

• I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?" My mom loves it." But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires." What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Light
  • Failure
  • Teenager

• I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Language

• I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Book
  • Future

• One of the strengths of the U.K. is its ability to attract very highly talented people from all over the places, but also their ability to send English people outside. So they're very brain circulation-oriented, and I do hope, even with Brexit, they will keep this asset they have.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • People
  • Hope
  • Brain

• For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.

  

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