Trent Reznor Quotes
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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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.
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I would like to see America some day.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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I want to be a major force.
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History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
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Management must manage!
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.
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There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.
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I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.
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I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.
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Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.
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Teaching is a distraction and a burden, but it's also an incredible stimulus. And a reprieve, in a way. When you're trying to work on something and it's not going anywhere, you can go to school and there's a two-and-a-half-hour block of time in which you can accomplish something.
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God has no religion.
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I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
