Kinky Friedman Quotes

'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

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• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Art
  • Crazy
  • Doors

• I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Long
  • Live
  • Funny

• 'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • American
  • Smart

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Movie
  • Disney
  • Director

• I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Because

• I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Today
  • Parents
  • Person

• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Doing

• Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Home
  • Mother

• It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Dream
  • Peaceful
  • Bring

• I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • Now
  • Standards

• Adequacy is sufficient.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Sufficient
  • Adequacy

• I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Me
  • Broken
  • Down

• Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Men
  • Character
  • Mad

• I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Men
  • Women
  • Enjoy

• The leaders of Europe always seem to emerge from the same elite, the same general frame of mind, the same schools, and the same institutions that rear generation after generation of politicians to this day. They take turns implementing the same policies.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Same

• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Black
  • Spanish

• I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.

  

  Ali MacGraw
  • Work
  • Career

• I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Help
  • Angry
  • Confused

• This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Love
  • Strong

• I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Success
  • Band

• 'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

  

  Kinky Friedman