Kinky Friedman Quotes
And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer field.
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The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I like to run fast but not drive.
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I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
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If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
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Public service is a part of who I am, having grown up in a family of politicians.
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
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If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
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The state of the world terrifies me. It feels more powerful personally to fight it through larger actions as opposed to trying to fight the Trump administration itself. It's sort of self-preservation for my mental health. If I spend too much of my energy and my brain on Trump, I'd lose my mind.
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.
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You need to create the illusion of success for people to pay attention.
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Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
