David Duchovny Quotes
When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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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.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.
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I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.
