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I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else. -- Trent Reznor
Spiral minds are harder to twist. -- Kris Saknussemm
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding -- Daniel Libeskind
The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding. -- Daniel Libeskind
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. -- Robert Winston
I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in. -- Joel David Moore
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else. -- Trent Reznor
My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture. -- Vik Muniz
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. -- Julia Margaret Cameron
When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down. -- will.i.am
You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it. -- Ray LaMontagne
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself. -- Mary J. Blige
Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral. -- Maynard James Keenan
If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life. -- Petra Nemcova
Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative. -- Jeb Bush
Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral. -- Gail Sheehy
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. -- Heather Mills
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. -- Vaclav Havel
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers. -- Simon Mainwaring
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves. -- Robert Lanza
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. -- Charles Stanley
My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral. -- Jo Brand
I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days. -- Tiny Tim
Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control. -- Ryan Holmes
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. -- Frances E. Willard
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. -- Charles Jencks
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts. -- Trent Reznor
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest. -- Vanna Bonta
There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste! -- Brandon Boyd
The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing. -- Jon Scieszka
Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death. -- Ozzy Osbourne
A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral. -- Walter Russell
I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism -- Amy Poehler
Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it. -- Rex Stout
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. -- Marion Milner
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. -- Hunter S. Thompson
He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest. -- Neil Gaiman
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess. -- Donna J. Haraway
If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards. -- Sam Altman
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane. -- Kevin Barry
To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch. -- Rob Woodall
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood. -- Marcus Brigstocke
If we live according to the law "an eye for an eye...," we will never escape from the spiral of evil. -- Pope Francis
When youâ??re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. -- Christina Baldwin
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. -- Hermann Hesse
Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them! -- Marianne Williamson
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The unconscious process moves spiral-wise around a center, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the center grow more and more distinct. -- Carl Jung
I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself. -- Rose Byrne
Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear. -- Rumi
The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free. -- Vladimir Nabokov
One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback. -- Randy Pausch
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts. -- Igor Babailov
...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere. -- Robert Jackson Bennett
I miss her like 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, and 5 misses 8. When we made love, our two bodies formed one spiral that seemed to cycle to the sky. -- Jarod Kintz
Like a weighted diver sinking in an oceanof mediocrity, under the pressure of men withgelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shapedconvictions, non-committal souls and non-committinghands ... -- Ayn Rand
I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral. -- Jerry Stahl
Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral. -- Sam Altman
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza. -- Douglas Adams
The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation. -- Juan Manuel Santos
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth. -- Wilferd Peterson
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch. -- Dennis Miller
Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time. -- Constant Lambert
Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky. -- Annie Dillard
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control. -- Steven Hatfill
When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in them two little spiral notebooks. -- Peter Matthiessen
There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral. -- Michael Hudson
I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them. -- Sasha Cohen
I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I'm very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention. -- Kellan Lutz
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of? -- Joel C. Rosenberg
There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment. -- William Beveridge
Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity. -- Daryn Kagan
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral. -- Mike Todd, Jr.
I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral. -- Mike Todd, Jr.
I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations. -- Nicole Krauss
Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs. -- Kristin Cashore
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil -- William Butler Yeats
We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control. -- Valerie Jarrett
On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth -- Anthony Doerr
My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up. -- Jerome Kerviel
If you are, consolidating at a lower interest rate can help you pay off your debt faster. But if there's even a small chance that you'll spiral back into debt, it's not for you. -- Jean Chatzky
There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words. -- Tom Waits
What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. -- Roger Wolcott Sperry
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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