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

• In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Art
  • History
  • Fun

• If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.

  

  Echo Bodine
  • Give Up
  • Possessions
  • Guided

• There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • Military

• In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Life
  • City
  • River

• We paired this announcement of the R&D with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."

  

  Bill Gates
  • Announcement
  • R&D
  • Breakthrough Energy Coalition

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

  

  Kinky Friedman