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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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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It's important to keep your power and not give it up.
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We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.
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Strategically, it is that same paradoxical logic that transforms victories into defeats if they merely persist long enough to pass their culminating point, whether by overextension or by bringing others into the fray, or both. And there is much more of the same, at every level of struggle, from the clash of weapons to the clash of empires, and in peace as well as in war. Always and everywhere it is the paradoxical logic of strategy that determines outcomes, whether the protagonists know of its existence or not.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I'm very close to thinking the United States shouldn't be in Basel any more. I would not have agreed to rules that are blatantly anti-American. Our regulators should go there and say, 'If it's not in the interests of the United States, we're not doing it.'
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What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.
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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.
