Trent Reznor Quotes
I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
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Teaching is in my blood.
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.
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I think, for me, nature has always been my main point of reference. I think as a child I was fascinated by landscapes and nature wherever I went. I was able to travel all over Denmark, which is not that large, everywhere in this country where I've been I always loved the landscape.
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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
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Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.
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Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.
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I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
