Kinky Friedman Quotes
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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Before there was anything, there was Lochan.
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In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
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There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
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It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.
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What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.
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Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.
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The warrior's gift is to willingly storm Hell that Heaven may remain unstained.
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If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
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Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
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I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.
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I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people would say that's impossible. And it may or may not be achieved, but I think that's less important than articulating what a just and fair world can be.
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I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes.
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I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
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The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
