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Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Kinky Friedman

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Kinky Friedman
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 1
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My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.
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I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.
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Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.
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You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
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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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I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.
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I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
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This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.
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If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right.
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If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.
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If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.
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I'm also for gay marriage, because I say they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Love is bigger than government. And Texas, by the way, has a very progressive law about gay couples adopting kids. We just won't let them get married. So that's not common sense.
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If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.
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