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My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

Kinky Friedman

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Kinky Friedman
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 1
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This is called spiritual lifting. It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.
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Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.
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Young people are the key to this election.
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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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I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
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And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.
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Simón Bolívar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.
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I'm well aware that the Nelson Mandelas and the Winston Churchills of the world happened by accident. They usually come out of nowhere.
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The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
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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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They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.
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I don't think where people come from is that important. It doesn't matter if you come from reality TV. The question is whether you can inspire people.
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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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Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.
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An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.
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Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
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I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.
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In six days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all the wonders therein. There are some of us who feel that He might have taken just a little more time.
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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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The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.
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