David Duchovny Quotes

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

David Duchovny

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• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Security
  • Down
  • Walk

• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Happen

• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Good
  • God
  • Night

• When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Think
  • Black

• Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Gold
  • Performance
  • Bear

• As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Small
  • Last

• Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Know
  • Oh
  • Oh Yeah

• My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Band
  • Popular

• It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Comfort Zone

• I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Know
  • Marketing
  • Others

• If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Country
  • Nothing
  • Traditions

• It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Why

• I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • May
  • Growth

• What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.

  

  James Murdoch
  • Up
  • Business
  • Energy

• A schoolchild should be taught grammar - for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. Having learned about the exciting mysteries of an English sentence, the child can then go forth and speak and write any damn way he pleases.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Way

• ShapeShift has no user accounts, signup, or registration process whatsoever. But it's faster and far more convenient than traditional exchanges.

  

  Erik Voorhees
  • Process
  • Accounts
  • Traditional

• Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

  

  David Duchovny