Kinky Friedman Quotes
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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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.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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'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.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The whole question of 'What is truth?' seemed to be the theme of Trump's presidency.
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I am a hopeless optimist.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
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I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.
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Yeah, I've always considered myself a musical person.
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'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
