Trent Reznor Quotes

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.

President Junior is the mascot of crony capitalism.

Danes should enjoy so much consideration in Norway, that one witness of them should invalidate ten of Northmen [Norwegians].

Does it seem like Washington's rigged for the well connected? That's because it is.

Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.

Does the Grammys intentionally use artists for their celebrity, popularity, and cultural appeal when they already know the winners and then program a show against this expectation? Meanwhile, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences hides behind the 'peer' voting system to escape culpability for not even rethinking its approach.

I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.

It is not a shocker to me that a film went out of my hands, not because I was not credible, but because I was not so-and-so's daughter or sister or dating so-and-so.

I am offended by people who feel that they're entitled to something just because of their last name.

What I love about 'American Idol' is that it's broad.

I always put people with my kind of background first.

If one person from their fraternity is a little above average, they are celebrated as if they are the most gifted individuals. And who is enhancing their cause? It's a section of the media.

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.