Tommy Emmanuel (William Thomas Emmanuel) Quotes
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
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Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
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But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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What I have learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
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People were always asking me who I wanted to tour with, and I always said Jason Aldean or Brad Paisley.
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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.
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We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.
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I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
