Kinky Friedman Quotes

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Kinky Friedman

Profession : Singer

Birth : November 1, 1944

I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.

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We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

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The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

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I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.

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The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

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I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

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I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

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If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.

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I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.

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When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.

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The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

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I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

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I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

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I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

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And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

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Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

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We were a country band with a social conscience.

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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

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William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.

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