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You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
Kinky Friedman
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Kinky Friedman
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 1
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If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.
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Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't a street
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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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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.
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Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.
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The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.
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I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.
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Happiness is a moving target.
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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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The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
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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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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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No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.
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You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.
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