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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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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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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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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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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A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
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KING: … of any kind. Should they have a state? Do you agree with the president there? There should be a Palestinian state?
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There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.
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I'm not really a gamer.
