David Duchovny Quotes
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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Once in a while, when I'm out on the lawn, I'll jump around and do a couple of things. Here's a secret: The older you get, the more difficult it gets. The smallest little injury stays with you for so long. But that's how it goes, and it doesn't stop me. I'm always ready to do something that hurts a little!
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Preserve untarnished the reputation you have so nobly won.
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We also know that our support for civil society is not just about what we’re against, but also what we’re for. Because we’ve noticed that governments that are more responsive and effective are typically governments where the people are free to assemble, and speak their minds, and petition their leaders, and hold us accountable.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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Very bad thing, killing little boy. But maybe Red man knows about whisky-Red, very thirsty, making crazy. Not like killing man to take his house or his woman or his land, like White man all the time.
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I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.
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I don’t believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I’m excited by style, not so much by fashion.
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Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
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When my story stalls on me, I've played my hand too soon.
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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
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I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
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The importance of recalls is to show that contaminated meat is getting out the door. And when you look at these recalls, in many ways the most disturbing thing about these recalls is how little of the meat actually winds up back at the plant.
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You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet.
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I'd love to direct more.