Kinky Friedman Quotes
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I love working in New York.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world is right here in Chicago: Columbia College.
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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I say to the women out there, remember how difficult it was for women like Justice O'Connor starting out. Even though she graduated with top grades, she had to take a job as a legal secretary. Remember how far we have come.
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The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
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Young people are the key to this election.
