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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

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THOMAS FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middl...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, an...
ADENA FRIEDMAN I didn't see your backbone. I felt like you were sleeping though the lyrical dance.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN It allows your car to run on straight vegetable oil just the same way you would on diesel, with very...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN I knew once one person had one, their friend would get one, and their neighbor would get one and it ...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN To be honest, I never wanted to live in L.A.. I like this area, but L.A.'s a pit, sorry. I'm from Sa...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN They were getting progressively violent.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN Your fox trot is the smoothest I've seen yet.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN It's not a hippie experiment anymore, ... It actually works and it works really well.
BRIAN FRIEDMAN The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the wo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN