Be Prepared Quotes - Page 20

• If we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues. For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and it's impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Impact

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, People, Economic

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

  Ted Cruz

  Reality, Media, Conservative

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• You should know the lines, be prepared, get sleep, and have the script analyzed so you're ready to rock and roll.

  William H. Macy

  Sleep, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made.

  Kurt Russell

  Running, Jobs, Editing

  Source: collider.com

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• In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

  Bill Moyers

  May, Facts, Happens

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it's over. At the same time, we have to be prepared.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Alternatives, Nuclear

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• We need to be prepared to have multi-stakeholder, well-managed partnerships. That can be very effective. We saw this happen at international level with the UN Convention on Landmines, for example, where some governments didn't want to go forward, but enough governments did and with them many NGOs. At international level we need to see this as the 21st century way of doing things.

  Mary Robinson

  Government, Example, Needs

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Be prepared for changes.

  Diana L. Eck

  Prepared

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• But if we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues.

  Donald Trump

  Issues, Important, Immigration

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.

  William H. Macy

  Mistake, Want, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, America, Today

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I really feel that actors should really know who they are as characters; they should really study their lines; they should be prepared; but once they come to set, for me the most exciting way to shoot a scene is to really find it, really kind of grind your way through it, until you feel like you have something that you can put together.

  Oren Moverman

  Character, Together, Way

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• I think you should be prepared for a green-screen CGI at all times.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Green, Should

  "How to Be a Better Person in 2015, According to the Creators of Portlandia". www.ericspitznagel.com. January 8, 2015.

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• The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.

  Kevin Allen

  Team, People, Secret

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.

  Chris Hegedus

  Crowdsourcing, Resources, Enormous

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• I have to say one of the lessons I learned is to always be prepared.

  Wendy Starland

  Lessons, Prepared

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

  Richard E. Besser

  Events, Lessons, Pay

  Source: content.time.com

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• You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.

  Damian Barr

  Letting Go, Writing, Who I Am

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, President, Reason Why

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Businesses will only invest in Greece if three conditions are fulfilled. First, there must be a clear commitment to the euro. No businesses will invest if they have to fear that Greece will leave the euro zone at some point. Second, the Greek government must be prepared to work together with European institutions in order to restructure the country.

  Martin Schulz

  Country, Commitment, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to be on the red carpet; each has its own dress code, and I have to be prepared. Jeans and a hoodie are great for a concert, but a dinner party?

  Amar'e Stoudemire

  Party, Jeans, Events

  "A New (Six-Foot-Ten) New Yorker Takes on Fashion Week" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2010.

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• If you want to make a difference in America, you need to be prepared for a very long, very frustrating slog.

  Kevin Drum

  Differences, America, Long

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• Who would desire peace should be prepared for war.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  War, Desire, Should

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• I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.

  Walter Munk

  Ocean, Thinking, Ice

  "Legendary Oceanographer Walter Munk: Reflecting on seventy-six years in oceanography and the future of the planet". Interview with Eliana Alvarez and Leah Goudsmit, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 27, 2015.

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