Kinky Friedman Quotes
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Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.
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There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.
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When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.
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When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
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When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
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I want to finish my career in Cleveland. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues.
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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
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A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
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I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.
