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• Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

  Claire Danes

  Careers, Defining, Influential

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• The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

  Mitch Daniels

  Rewards, Refrain, Disgusted

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private lives online. They put stuff on Facebook that 15 years from now will prevent them from getting the jobs they want. They don't understand that they are mortgaging their future for a quick laugh from a friend.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Jobs, Years, People

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• Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

  Umberto Eco

  Fear, Humility, Religion

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.503, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Two, Waiting, Actors

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• I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

  Omar Epps

  Believe, Opportunity, Doors

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• I am a big believer in visualization. I run through my races mentally so that I feel even more prepared.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Athlete, Race

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• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hero, Thinking, Knowing

  "Nathan Fillion Talks Castle, Firefly, and What’s Next". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

  Carly Fiorina

  Risk, Faces, Be Prepared

  "CNBC's Larry Kudlow speaks with Carly Fiorina, former HP CEO, and Senator John McCain today". "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. June 9, 2010.

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• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  Carly Fiorina

  Matter, Be Prepared, Organisation

  "A very bad business" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Growing Up, Home

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Joy, Preparation

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 7

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• I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Pages Turning, Ideas

  Interview with Tom Chatfield, tomchatfield.net.

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• Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Fate, Men, Battle

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• No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

  Billy Graham

  Sympathy, Hurt, Condolences

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• I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.

  Jennifer Granholm

  President, Vices, Biden

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• You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

  William Hague

  People

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• Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

  Katherine Heigl

  Reality, Way, Plans

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• The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.

  Marilu Henner

  Stressed, Nervous, Focused

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• I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Dance, Funny Things

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

  Russel Honore

  Eye, Preparation, Storm

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• A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, War, Tyrants

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  Naveen Jain

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Engineering

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• Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Usa, Challenges, Important

  "Obama Spokesman Says 'Obama Ready to RULE on Day 1'" by Warner Todd Huston, www.newsbusters.org. November 10, 2008.

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