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Kinky Friedman
American
Musician
About the author
We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Experience
#Politics
Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Students
The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Democrats
#Republicans
The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#First
The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#God
#Saying
The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Life
#Spirit
#Value
The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Teachers
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.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Songs
#People
#World
#Books
We were a country band with a social conscience.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Country
#Conscience
I see an issue I like, and I support it.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Support
We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Politicians
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#People
#Home
#Job
When I'm governor... I'll be the first governor with a listed telephone number.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#First
William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Heart
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Life
#Pleasure
#Financial
You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Struggle
Young people are the key to this election.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#People
#Key
No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Life
#Nothing
#Change
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.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Public
#First
#Education
#Winning
#Race
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Design
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,
American
Musician
#Work
#State
#Musicians
#Politicians
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Eye
#Beauty
#Beer
I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Drinking
I admit to drinking it, but I did not swallow.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Drinking
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Life
#First
#Preparation
#Childhood
I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Hair
I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Want
#Property
#Taxes
I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#War
May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#God
#May
#Respect
#Choice
And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#State
#Hell
#Musicians
#Politicians
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Right
#Support
#Rest
#Marriage
#Gay
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Love
#Money
If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Time
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Country
#Civil rights
I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Love
#May
#Money
I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Old
#Women
#Care
I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Right
#Now
#School
#Prayer
I'll sign anything except bad legislation.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Legislation
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
Kinky Friedman,
American
Musician
#Life
#Preparation
#Childhood