Kinky Friedman Quotes
May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
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And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.
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With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.
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The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.
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My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
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May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
