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• What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

  William Shatner

  Be Prepared

  "Q&A: William Shatner wins Governor General's Award". Interview with Melissa Leong, nationalpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

  William Shatner

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• Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Done, World

  Major Barbara (1907) act 3

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• 'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophical, Interesting, House

  "Ape House by Sara Gruen - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

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• If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Pay, Fool

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• There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

  Jimmy Smits

  Jobs, Giving Up, Practice

  Interview with Lisa Manafian, www.hispanic-today.com. September 08, 2011.

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• If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  School, Kids, Poor

  Interview with Anderson Cooper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.

  Charles Stanley

  Father, Home, Thinking

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• All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Speech, Language, Willing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.5302, Delphi Classics

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• My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Waiting, Answers

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel”, p.40, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, People, Pay

  "The Fairness Trap". www.newyorker.com. June 4 & 11, 2012.

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• I know most Americans don't have this luxury, but we are in Los Angeles and are lucky enough to be able to grill outside almost all year long. It's my favorite way of preparation because it's so clean and it gives it such a great flavor. You need very little oil and the protein can be really cleanly prepared and perfectly cooked.

  Alison Sweeney

  Luxury, Oil, Years

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• Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

  Anthony Trollope

  Love, Book, Perfect

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• I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

  Ted Turner

  Running, Attitude, Winning

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• You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional.

  Mark Udall

  Team, Risk, Mountain

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• Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

  Gore Vidal

  Life, Running, Native American

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 17, 2010

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• As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

  Alice Walker

  Fear, School, Done

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• I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

  Vera Wang

  Kids, Want, Wells

  "The Vera Wang Interview: Made of Honor" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

  Denzel Washington

  Motivational, Success, Opportunity

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• Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.

  Emma Watson

  People, Trade, Clothings

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2010.

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• Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

  Charles Williams

  Forgiveness, Party, Broken

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• Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

  Robert Winston

  School, People, Work Out

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• If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

  Frances Wright

  Courage, Disappointment, Ignorance

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.31

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• Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

  Thom Yorke

  Power, Thinking, People

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Long Ago, Essentials, May

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.67, Open Road Media

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