Emmanuel Jal Quotes
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
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I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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(mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) 'Hey...' (cracks) You paid to see it... 'hey... Ever eaten a worm?' (2nd fish) 'What? When did you ever eat a worm?' 'Oh, one day, me and my buddy were laying on the bank... trying to catch our breath...' - thank you, for those of you who got that...
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I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
