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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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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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 restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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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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Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.
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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.
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We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.
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It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
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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.
