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I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

Kinky Friedman

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Kinky Friedman
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 1
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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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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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Young people are the key to this election.
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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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I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.
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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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If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.
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You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.
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I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass.
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The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't tax people to death.
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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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We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.
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I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics.
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If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
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God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.
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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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Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
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If Jesus Christ had run as an independent, Rick Perry would have beat him.
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I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!
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