David Duchovny Quotes

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

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• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Once you're signed to a label you compromise.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Compromise
  • Once

• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Me
  • Actress
  • Stereotype

• As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

  

  Karen Mills
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Office

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vote

• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Everything
  • U.S.
  • Custom

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Inspiration
  • Model

• Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • School
  • English
  • Inspiration

• Little boys have amazing minds.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Amazing
  • Minds
  • Little

• Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Work
  • Play
  • Looking

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • World

• Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.

  

  William Clark
  • Faith
  • Further

• We don't want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn't be one of our primary concerns, and we prefer to adopt the ostrich position.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Life
  • Money

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it. It's hard to be that quick and articulate in life. You've got to try to make it seem discovered, you know, not rehearsed.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Service