239 Quotes by Kinky Friedman

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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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    I am not anti-death penalty, but I’m damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

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    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.

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    If you’re patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it’ll usually be something you don’t like.

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    The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship.

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    You don’t accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

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    I’ve achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

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