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In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a litt...
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It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.
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I would love to be looked at some day - and I'm not ever saying I'm at this level - but I...
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The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else f...
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When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that ...
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I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came ...
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'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing insid...
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When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmon...
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I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come...
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I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in ac...
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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come t...
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I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.
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Nine Inch Nails was born out of Cleveland, Ohio, with me and a friend in a studio working on demos a...
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Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is base...
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Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified a...
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Wal-Mart went on a rampage years ago insisting all music they carry be censored of all profanity and...
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I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go do...
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I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. ...
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I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning wit...
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I write most of my songs when I'm in a bad mood.
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I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just c...
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I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then ...
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What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in ex...
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I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept,...
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I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at ...
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I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes o...
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What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centre...
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The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt...
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Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-ex...
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I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I...
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I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that departmen...
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To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, myst...
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my li...
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It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn&...
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Spotify - I met those guys before they launched in America and was wildly excited about the idea. &#...
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Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a pol...
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When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this f...
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There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we ...
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Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that...
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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown...
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As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine I...
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I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floo...
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I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything w...
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My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if t...
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Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
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One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - ...
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I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere...
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I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.
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I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, ang...
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I'd rather not get into what I'm talking about lyrically. I think it's impossible not to...
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The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Mac...
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iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of s...
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My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other...
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Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a...
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I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3...
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Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
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Bow down before the one you serve, You're going to get what you deserve.
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You told me you'd never make me cry. Now I'm slipping on the tears you've made me cry. Why does it c...
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I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
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I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I...
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Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never r...
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I just want something I can never have.
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And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss m...
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
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There is no agenda here other than for you to explore, experiment, and have fun with it, I'm looking...
TRENT REZNOR

Alex is doing great and fitting in well,
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'With Teeth' is finished,
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Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least...
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Anything I can do to help out. I love this place, and if it helps a little bit, whether it be throug...
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We've put extra effort into developing this program as an effective way to ensure that Nine Inch Nai...
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Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.
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Touring in the past, the show was just something you had to do to get to the after-show,
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one that was the antithesis of 'The Fragile,' which was complex. Songs flowed into each other, and i...
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I really should know better by now, but I have read some [Internet bulletin boards] and feel the nee...
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I can't begin to tell you what a difficult job it is to replace your drummer in this band.
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This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.
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My God sits in the back of the limosine. My God comes in a wrapper of cellophane. My God pouts on th...
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My doctor says, 'You've got one of the hardest ones to treat because it's not bipolar, it's not up a...
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I sit down to write a song and it's just me just trying to be as honest as I can for myself and to s...
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The entire secret to the world is some drummers can play with click tracks and some can't,
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I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.
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I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
TRENT REZNOR

The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there th...
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In my nothing , you were everything , to me.
TRENT REZNOR

Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me.
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It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy'...
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For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how peop...
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I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arr...
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It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a...
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I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or wha...
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In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to ...
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I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails ...
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Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to pl...
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Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my go...
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With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectati...
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A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the s...
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After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can'...
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In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disp...
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I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wire...
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When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it alwa...
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I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also s...
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I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it...
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I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
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the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.
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I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simula...
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You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like th...
TRENT REZNOR

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
TRENT REZNOR

When I sit down to make a set list I usually think, 'We'll build it up here, take it down he...
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The...
TRENT REZNOR Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form b...
TRENT FRANKS Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards...
TRENT DILFER

I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th...
LORD TRENT Much to Mr. Obama's chagrin, ours is not a government run by fiat. The American people have show...
TRENT FRANKS Our focus should be on the more than 70 cures and treatments that have been successfully produced fr...
TRENT FRANKS My priorities? Assisting our allies, the Kurds, in their fight against ISIS.
TRENT FRANKS If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer...
TRENT FRANKS The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjec...
TRENT FRANKS The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or t...
TRENT FRANKS We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictato...
TRENT LOTT If lenders are forced to scale back student lending because private student loans are subject to ban...
TRENT FRANKS A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the ...
TRENT LOTT Look, the administration said months ago that we were caught napping in this area, that OPEC has run...
TRENT LOTT There's such a fine line. It's a little risky, but we'll make the call through how he practices. The...
TRENT YAWNEY The thing that impresses me the most about Leon is his tenacity and his toughness to the ball. When ...
TRENT JOHNSON It was all good if you were in the game to just pick up a paycheck,
TRENT DILFER I think Tahoe is one of the hidden gems in the country, and I've played a lot of golf around the...
TRENT DILFER Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their ...
TRENT FRANKS It's akin to the Rosie-the-riveter type thing, because we are asking every American and every Americ...
TRENT DUFFY If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the...
TRENT DILFER Molly's performance goes back to hard work. This time last year she was just beginning and now after...
TRENT LANCASTER this is not a dictatorship. The president is not a dictator, and neither am I.
TRENT LOTT If someone came into my home and wanted to arrest me for murder, that would be far less traumatizing...
TRENT FRANKS How much of the proceeds actually reach the charities? A portion? After profits? A percentage? Many ...
TRENT STAMP When you get those opportunities early and you don't take advantage of it, they usually come back to...
TRENT YAWNEY All these cheesy completions the West Coast guys get that prop up their stats -- I just refuse to bu...
TRENT DILFER I've been 'Favre'd' twice up here, ... So, I was a wreck on the sidelines. It was big to erase some ...
TRENT DILFER Of all government expenditures, defense spending is the... most stimulative to the economy.
TRENT FRANKS Jesus said unto them: Come and dine. John 21:12.
TRENT LOTT The administration has taken its inexcusable apathy a step further, declaring that even abiding by t...
TRENT FRANKS But North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to set aside its ambition for nuclear weapons.
TRENT DUFFY As we consider the shared values of the U.S. and India, due attention to the fundamental human right...
TRENT FRANKS We're not going to be bogged down. The schedule is too full for that to happen.
TRENT DUFFY We think that the best way to keep calm and cool and dignified is to look at each other and talk to ...
TRENT LOTT Religious minority communities in India have endured incidents of harassment, discrimination, intimi...
TRENT FRANKS This treaty was voted down because it was a bad treaty.
TRENT LOTT Why is Sen. Daschle hiding behind procedure?
TRENT LOTT In 1998, I was with Tampa Bay when we led the league in rushing - and we stunk. We led the league in...
TRENT DILFER [President Clinton] acts like a spoiled brat. He thinks he's got to have it his way or no way,
TRENT LOTT If we have to do enhanced interrogation on terrorists, then I can live with that.
TRENT FRANKS This is big to come up here and erase some of those demons.
TRENT DILFER This game had a lot of similarities to our whole year. It was a young team coming off a big win over...
TRENT YAWNEY In my opinion, (Richardson) was the MVP, ... It was brutal down (on the field with the winds gusting...
TRENT DILFER We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their lo...
TRENT DUFFY When you don't have a voice like Michele Bachmann's, who personifies all of the good things ...
TRENT FRANKS I wholeheartedly believe that Andy Biggs is the right man to take up the legacy that Matt Salmon is ...
TRENT FRANKS I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before thi...
TRENT DILFER A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation ...
TRENT FRANKS While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventual...
TRENT LOTT Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and...
TRENT LOTT The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking t...
TRENT LOTT I don't think the Justice Department or Janet Reno have the foggiest idea how to do it,
TRENT LOTT Because the administration has indicated it will not support any funding for Amtrak this fiscal year...
TRENT LOTT By significantly lowering the cost of capital for small, medium, and large businesses alike, the pro...
TRENT LOTT Clearly justified by the intelligence.
TRENT LOTT There's nothing there now. I found my refrigerator, from my kitchen. It went down the street two blo...
TRENT LOTT Major things will have to wait on the next president and the next Congress,
TRENT LOTT Nothing will be the same again.
TRENT LOTT That's our goal, and we have set in motion a process that will get us there.
TRENT LOTT We're not asking for a handout, but we do need help,
TRENT LOTT Herding Cats, A Life in Politics,
TRENT LOTT From what I've seen, I don't think you can trust the Chinese on any deal,
TRENT LOTT acting like a private, instead of a general.
TRENT LOTT Y'all come back soon, but I hope that's not taken the wrong way and not for an occasion like this on...
TRENT LOTT If he doesn't solve a couple of problems that we've got right now he ain't going to be able to hold ...
TRENT LOTT Democrats are right, by the way, when they complain about the way President Clinton's judicial nomin...
TRENT LOTT I do think we, the president, all of us need to do a better job, do more, ... why we have made this ...
TRENT LOTT In the summer of 2002...the President began lobbying for an open-ended resolution empowering him to ...
TRENT LOTT I don't know that this is going to happen, but I expect that something specific would be asked of Co...
TRENT LOTT I think it is dangerous. We have got to make sure that we can verify the safety and the reliability ...
TRENT LOTT Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
TRENT LOTT the missing woman isn't white .
TRENT LOTT I had raised money for Jeffords; in 2000, I had even campaigned for him in Vermont. Six months later...
TRENT LOTT 'I'm not going to do it,' I yelled back at him. 'I'm not going to do it and I'm very disappointed by...
TRENT LOTT I want nothing to do with her. Keep her away from me.
TRENT LOTT All week I have been practicing on my outside shots. Everyone in the state knows I have a high?crotc...
TRENT HARDIN I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
TRENT LOTT You're not entitled to anything.
TRENT JOHNSON We are opening an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials related to ...
TRENT DUFFY I can't remember a team that's come in here and beat us as handily as that team did. This was by far...
TRENT JOHNSON For him to do what he did after being out says a lot about Gabe Pruitt as a player.
TRENT JOHNSON Right now our total energy is based on Arizona and trying to play better than how we played against ...
TRENT JOHNSON Because of how we played the second half when Matt was down and the approach to practice the week af...
TRENT JOHNSON He's one of the best — he's one of our icons. He's humble and unassuming.
TRENT JOHNSON It's what you expect when you play a Dick Bennett-coached team.
TRENT JOHNSON You were blackout drunk the night before if you wake up and have no idea where you are and why.
TRENT JOHNSON [But the effectiveness of the response to Katrina appears to diminish the higher you move up the cha...
TRENT LOTT I'm a big defense hawk and a big fiscal conservative, but in this case, Pakistan continues to im...
TRENT FRANKS Anytime you lose a player of Matt's caliber, it is going to impact what you do, but we're not changi...
TRENT JOHNSON The Obama Justice Department has decided to cease the prosecution of the Muslim Brotherhood's U....
TRENT FRANKS To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful. I w...
TRENT LOTT

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

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