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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.

Kinky Friedman

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Kinky Friedman
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 1
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If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!
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If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.
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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 don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun.
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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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If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.
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The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.
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The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.
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We're going to make that Lone Star shine again.
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There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.
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The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
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We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.
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May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
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When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.
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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'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.
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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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