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• Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security.

  Sanford Bishop

  Might, World, Compromise

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• The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral here. Be very careful and very clear about what you say. But do not be dogmatic about your own language. Be prepared to express any careful thought in the language your audience will understand. And be prepared to learn from someone who talks a language with which you are not familiar.

  Ian Hacking

  Important, Able, Moral

  Ian Hacking (2001). “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Desk Examination Edition”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

  Beverly Sills

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Drama

  Beverly Sills (1981). “Bubbles: an encore”

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• Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Adults, World, Problem

  "Shirley Maclaine Talks About Being In Her Shoes". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. October 7, 2005.

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• My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Mother, Couple, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

  Fiona Apple

  Fall, Matter, Holes

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

  Cate Blanchett

  Play, People, Roles

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I actually don't have any fear of people reading Wild and going out unprepared. Because one of the best things that ever happened to me was that I went out unprepared. And when you really think about it, all I did wrong was that I took too much stuff, which is the most common backpacker mistake. The part that I wasn't prepared for is the part you can't prepare for.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mistake, Reading, Thinking

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2014.

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• If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.

  Romola Garai

  Art, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Sacrifice, Confusion

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.672, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...As every one of us knows, there are some festivals and games in which everything goes right, and every element lifts up, animates, and exalts every other, just as there are theatrical and musical performances which without any clearly discernible cause seem to ascend miraculously to glorious climaxes and intensely felt experiences, whereas others, just as well prepared, remain no more than decent tries.

  Hermann Hesse

  Games, Musical, Trying

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• I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

  Neil Kinnock

  Advice, Adults, Experts

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• If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Risk, Goes On

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.235, Random House

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• Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Glasses, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.29, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

  Bill Ackman

  Thinking, Cost, World

  "CNBC Exclusive: CNBC's Scott Wapner Interviews Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman from CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference in NYC". "Closing Bell", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I'm prepared for 12 rounds. I'll be very happy with anything else, but I'm prepared for 12 or 15 rounds.

  Jan Zaveck

  Very Happy, Rounds

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• I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

  Vin Scully

  Ads

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• We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

  Bhagat Singh

  Pain, Struggle, People

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Good preparation is key for me. Nowadays everyone is an actor slash writer, slash this, slash that, its cool; and you can only go so far on pure talent so you also need to know your craft well. I directed tons of shorts in college and acted in a slew of non paying acting work. You just have to be prepared. Period.

  Jaime Zevallos

  College, Keys, Preparation

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You can never be too prepared. I don't believe creativity needs to come from chaos, I find it's easier to be creative when I'm really "ready".

  Leanne Pooley

  Believe, Creativity, Creative

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Leanne Pooley". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I could've had moments when I could've said, "You know what? Let me make another film; this is taking a long time to get distributed." It can be difficult to stay passionate. You have to be that passionate and be prepared for it to get what it deserves. Make sure you have a really good team going in at the beginning and don't have people in your team that aren't there 100%.

  Storm Saulter

  Team, Long, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set.

  Tony Scott

  Morning, Shooting, Firsts

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.

  Amanda Ripley

  Government, Panic, Emergencies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Country, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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