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• I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Directors, Actors

  "Tommy Lee Jones: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2012.

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• If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Crazy, Sacrifice

  "With Kennedy". Book by Pierre Salinger, Chapter 1: Lancer to Wayside, page 1, 1966.

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• I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

  Stephen King

  Funny, House, Sanity

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• As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

  Ben Kingsley

  Risk, Actors, Possibility

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

  Anne Lamott

  Land, Doubt, Lily Pads

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.7, Anchor

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• I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Political, Challenges, World

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• I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Two, Focus

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• Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

  Ken Livingstone

  Balanced, Has Beens, Budgets

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Work, Drug, Abuse

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• I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

  Paul Lynde

  Interesting, Looks, Spices

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• To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry.

  Harvey Mackay

  Stress, Worry, Champion

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Lonely, Loneliness, Mask

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1903-1917”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Education, Opportunity, Preparation

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.196, e-artnow

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• I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Strong, Others Opinions, Giving

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• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Fun, Mistake

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• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Art, Morning, Believe

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• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Fifty, May

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• There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.

  Bode Miller

  Winning, Giving, Guy

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• We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Distance, People, Heaven

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• I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

  Roger Moore

  Believe, Waiting, Illness

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• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

  Van Morrison

  Motivational Sports, Winning, Order

  Song: Hard Nose the Highway, Album: Hard Nose the Highway

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• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Time, Fate, Literature

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• I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

  Elon Musk

  Believe, Thinking, People

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

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• Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

  Guru Nanak

  Spring, Quality, Peculiar

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