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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If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better but because they contain precisely those truths of which our own age is neglectful.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.
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Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable-and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
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Everywhere in the world, you find good things.
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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.
