David Duchovny Quotes
When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
-
I never pursued being 'famous.'
-
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
-
Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
-
'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
-
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
-
I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
-
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
-
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
-
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
-
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
-
Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
-
When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
-
I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
-
Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
-
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
-
Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.
-
The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
-
But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.
-
You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
-
When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
