Kinky Friedman Quotes

We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

Kinky Friedman

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• Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Body

• Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Change
  • Second Amendment

• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
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• When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • America
  • Focus

• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Information

• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Heart
  • Love
  • For Her

• Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Name

• I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Gowns

• The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • World
  • Model
  • Economy

• I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Always
  • Mysterious
  • Been

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Share
  • Islamic

• The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Food
  • Comfort

• If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Why

• People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Control
  • Fall

• I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Hope
  • Path
  • Stress

• I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Kids
  • Human
  • Public Life

• Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Writing
  • Goal

• Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Help
  • Room
  • Assistance

• I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.

  

  Alain Delon
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Eye

• We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.

  

  Kinky Friedman
  • Clear
  • Room
  • Politicians