Tommy Emmanuel (William Thomas Emmanuel) Quotes
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I believe in music.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
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I'm lactose intolerant, so usually pizza makes me feel horrible. But I'll occasionally go very hard and do pizza and pineapple.
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I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.
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You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.
