David Duchovny Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
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I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
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Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
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Sic rerum summa novatursemper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt. augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantumet quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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Wear the cap and the bells And you'll rate all the great swells. If you become a doctor, folks'll face you with dread. If you become a dentist, they'll be glad when you're dead. You get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head. Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.
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Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.
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Slade was the coolest band in England. They were the kind of guys that would push your car out of a ditch.
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
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I'm not really a gamer.
