Trent Reznor Quotes
Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.
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It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."
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I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way.
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Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.
