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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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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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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
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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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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light.
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Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the corner with spiders building nests in his hair, and he hasn't bathed for three weeks, but for whatever reason, he's more creative than the guy sitting next to him that's showered and is talking to everybody.
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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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.
