David Duchovny Quotes
In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
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Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
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I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
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You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.
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Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
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In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
