Kinky Friedman Quotes
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country.
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Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß. Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren, und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
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You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.
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Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.
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There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.
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The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
