Kinky Friedman Quotes
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
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Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.
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My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.
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Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.
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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
