David Duchovny Quotes

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

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• The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Reality
  • Stronger
  • Palestine

• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Pride

• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

  Ted Williams
  • You
  • Need
  • Hit

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Liberty

• Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Know

• To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Knowledge
  • Fashion
  • Wise

• But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Value

• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Art
  • Society
  • Freedom

• At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Period
  • Painting

• If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Society
  • Freedom

• In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.

  

  Dorothy Stratten
  • Men

• You want everyone to succeed in your family.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen
  • Family

• I don't remember the exact moment I fell in love with snowboarding; it wasn't something cheesy like, 'Oh the wind was blowing through my hair and I just knew this sport was for me... ' I was good at it, and it's exhilarating!

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Hair

• My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Respect
  • Childhood

• There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

  

  Jason Isbell

• I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

  

  John Harvey Kellogg
  • Up
  • Believe

• Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Salvation

• When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Cheesy