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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward De Bono / Physician
Appropriate
Be Prepared
Cost
Flexible
Strive
Predict
Accurately
Futures
Lower
Striving
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If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're not going to be prepared for the acting side. The only thing you can do is go through the meat grinder of your first film.
Neill Blomkamp / Film Director
Acting
Be Prepared
Film
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In the 21st century, our adversaries will continue to use cyberattacks against us. We need to be prepared to defend our networks against this growing threat to our democracy, especially the most fundamental part of our political system: our elections.
Amy Klobuchar / United States Senator
Adversaries
Be Prepared
Networks
Defend
Fundamental
Political System
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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
H. G. Bissinger /
Academic
Be Prepared
Fees
Mockery
Prefer
Dumping
Enhancing
Programs
Mission
Subsidize
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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 / Basketball Player
Be Prepared
Carpet
Code
Dinner
Dinner Party
Events
Jeans
Party
Prepared
Red Carpet
Attend
Concert
Event
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Everyone has a mobile phone with a camera; every phone can record video. You have to be prepared to be captured. It's very easy to be misconstrued and presented in ways that you wouldn't prefer. If I take a selfie with bags under my eyes, it becomes a hashtag.
Ranveer Singh / Film Actor
Bags
Be Prepared
Captured
Prepared
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Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.
John Waters / Film Director
Christmas
Be Prepared
Merchandise
Names
Numbers
Prepared
Sells
Brand
Exact
Store
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As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.
Josh Elliott /
Be Prepared
Prepared
Work Good Your
Almost Everything
In The Beginning
Task
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There are more things to worry about in the world than a messed-up audition. It's out of your hands. So often, it's not down to acting abilities but something an actor has no control over. So go in, be prepared, do your job, and go and enjoy the rest of your day.
Gregg Sulkin / Actor
Be Prepared
Prepared
World Your Day
Audition
No Control
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Something clicked, and I was like, 'I gotta be prepared. This could end at any time.' That was my second year in the league. From that point on I started doing broadcasting and things like that in an attempt to find my passion - something I could do after football.
Nnamdi Asomugha /
Be Prepared
Broadcasting
Attempt
Clicked
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It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system. I think that Canadians and, indeed, other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us.
Chrystia Freeland /
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Russia
Canadians
Directed
Efforts
Indeed
Political System
Similar
Sources
Western Countries
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You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen.
Ruby Dee / Actress
Accepted
Be Prepared
Excuse
Prepared
Racism
Time Myself Always
Expectation
Happen
Role
Saying
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If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
Michael Bloomberg / Former Mayor Of New York City
Government
Be Prepared
Being There
Blame
Cities
Congress
Emergencies
Mayors
Prepared
President
Strikes
Fema
Governments
Hurricane
In The End
Local
State Governments
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Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!
Russell M. Nelson / Surgeon
Be Prepared
Eternal
Eternal Life
Forever
Holy
Prepared
Return
Temples
Life Happiness God
Life Happiness Time
Families
Ordained
Plan
Sealed
The Most Important
Unit
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Victoria Pendleton / Cyclist
Be Prepared
Best Way
Combat
Prepared
Best Always Yourself
Beating
Important Part
Best Me Yourself
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We're always thinking of different things to be on the cutting edge of what's entertaining or what's hot on Twitter or social media or even society in general. I've had little goals here and there. But that's the main goal. Always changing, always be prepared to adapt.
Kofi Kingston /
Be Prepared
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Different Things
Entertaining
Adapt
Edge
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If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations - and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.
Steven Wilson / Musician
Artist
Be Prepared
Disappoint
Fans
Prepared
Yourself Your People
Entertainer
True
Too
Confront
Give
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Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
Paul Auster / Author
Be Prepared
Becoming
Careers
Decision
Doctors
Long
Prepared
Accept
Writer
Anything Else
Doctor
Choose
Rest
Policeman
Road
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I'm not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don't think L.A.'s the place to find one.
Travis Fimmel / Actor
Girl
Positive
Be Prepared
Country
Middle
Prepared
Positive People Will
People Will Live
Rules
Actress
Nowhere
Drawn
Place
No Rules
Toughest
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed.
Albert Murray / Critic
Be Prepared
Competent
Function
Jazz
Musicianship
Orchestration
Prepared
Score
Contribute
Execute
Improvisational
Rehearsed
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You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.
Melvin Van Peebles / Actor
Be Prepared
Endeavor
Time Always Face
Carried
Check
Costly
Times People
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Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it's like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it.
Big Bank Hank /
Be Prepared
Blessing
Personal Life
Prepared
Short Lived
Life Love Your
Marriages
Toll
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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 / Trumpeter
Agree
Be Prepared
Dominant
Giving
Mythology
Others Opinions
Prepared
Strong
Join
Minded
Opinions
Strong Feelings
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Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
Mark Mckinnon / Advisor
Advocacy
Be Prepared
Citizenship
Groups
Hard Questions
Issues
Policy
Position
Prepared
Public Servants
Voters
Words
Answer
Questions
Asked
Candidate
Clearly
Public
Declare
Policy Issues
Push
Servants
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So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.
John C. Calhoun / Former United States Representative
Be Prepared
Britain
Common
Great Britain
Left
Mexico
Oregon
Prepared
Rupture
Open
Calculate
Cause
Chances
Common Cause
Difference
Event
Question
Settle
Speedily
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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 / Musician
Art
Morning
Art School
Be Prepared
Believe
Pillow
Prepared
Allowed
Wonderful Thing
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As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Ellie Goulding / Singer-Songwriter
Awake
Be Prepared
Convince
Lifetime
Mum
Prepared
Life Time Myself
Cataclysmic
Streak
Lie
Firmly
Inherited
Meteor
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I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
Pele / Soccer Player
Health
Be Prepared
Care
Father
Football
Philosophy
Prepared
Take Care
Used
Time God Good
Listen
Gift
Gave
Good Shape
Got
Play Football
Stop
Shape
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If you don't have a sense of adventure in this job, then you're not going to do very well. You have to be prepared for the unexpected, and that's one of the reasons why you really, really, really have to trust the people you're going to work with because you don't know what's on the other end.
Cush Jumbo /
Adventure
Be Prepared
Prepared
Unexpected
Trust Work People
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In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.
John Mica / U.s. Representative
Be Prepared
London
Moscow
Mumbai
Prepared
States
Subway
Taken
Train
United
United States
Since
Attack
Attacks
Billion
Show
Buses
Nation
Earlier
Experienced
Far
Major
Trains
Sept
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Readers really want to come back to an author; they do not want a one-book wonder. That is all very well, but to be career author, you have to be prepared to write one really good book and then write another really good book and keep feeding your readers. You build your audience over a long time.
Stephanie Laurens / Author
Be Prepared
Feeding
Good Book
Prepared
Time Good Your
Time Good Long
Author
Readers
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
Yusef Komunyakaa / Poet
Be Prepared
Ideas
Important
Important Things
Lofty
Prepared
Shapes
Classical
Edit
Poem
Revise
Shape
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
David Bowie / Musician
Music
Running
Advantage
Be Prepared
Electricity
Left
Prepared
Situation
Touring
Unique
Water
Years
Lot
Again
Doing
Take
Itself
Ever
Few
Happen
Last
Last Few Years
None
Take Advantage
Unique Situation
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Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.
Gareth Bale / Soccer Player
Be Prepared
Factors
Volume
Advanced
Affect
Foods
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The conditions change so much at the French Open, you know, you have to be prepared for something you really don't know what it is. You can practice in the morning and it's fine, and the weather is great then you come to play in the afternoon and it is drizzly and the conditions are totally different.
Mats Wilander / Tennis Player
Afternoon
Be Prepared
Conditions
Fine
Practice
Prepared
Weather
Totally
Open
French
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I struggled in London for a very long time. 'Be prepared to struggle a lot' - it's a European mentality. The American mentality is positive and 'You can do it' and 'Everything's possible.' In Europe it's an older, more realistic way of thinking. You feel like you're having to prove that you can do it.
Juan Pablo Di Pace / Actor
Be Prepared
Mentality
Prepared
Prove
Realistic
You Can Do It
Struggled
Very Long Time
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As a young entrepreneur starting an enterprise company, be prepared for the fact that you'll need to get involved in enterprise sales. Everyone wants to speak to the founder, and this is also how you'll get feedback on your product. It's worth bringing in early somebody with enterprise sales experience.
Anthony Goldbloom /
Be Prepared
Enterprise
Entrepreneur
Feedback
Prepared
Starting
Bringing
Founder
Sales
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When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.
Colin Powell / Former United States Secretary Of State
Afghanistan
Be Prepared
Country
Military
Prepared
Responsibility
Syria
Government Responsibility Country
Anyone Else
Military Operation
Operation
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There are, in fact, very few organic zinc compounds; only the first members of the series, which correspond to the simplest organic radicals, can be prepared without too much difficulty, but they have the disadvantage of being spontaneously inflammable in air and are consequently very dangerous to handle.
Victor Grignard / Chemist
Be Prepared
Compounds
Difficulty
Handle
Prepared
Simplest
Consequently
Correspond
Disadvantage
Organic
Radicals
Spontaneously
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People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.
Jack Canfield / Author
Confidence
Be Prepared
Boldness
Certainty
Criticism
Hesitant
Intimidated
Prepared
Shy
Uncertain
Unexpected
Figured
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The pace is different on a film set. It's slightly slower, allowing for a little more wiggle room. Sometimes there is a bit more room to explore and work on the floor. On a TV set, you really have to be ultra-prepared and ready to deliver because time is so tight. Not that you don't have to be prepared for film.
Jodi Balfour /
Allowing
Be Prepared
Film Set
Pace
Time Work Sometimes
Deliver
Explore
Work Time Sometimes
Slightly
Slower
Tight
Tv Set
Wiggle
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People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'
Charles Leadbeater /
Be Prepared
Good Job
Prepared
Profit
Amateur
Good Culture People
Apple
Ensure
Services
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My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be prepared to be fully informed of all that goes on and unhesitatingly discharge any men connected with this movement. In this way, our peace will be secure for a long time, and it will be easily done if taken at the start.
Charles M. Schwab /
Be Prepared
Connected
Discharge
Long Time
Meetings
Movement
Organization
Prepared
Secure
Taken
Attempt
Easily
Fully
Hold
Informed
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I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don't you think? That would be fantastic: 'Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now - I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don't go in, they're anti-Semitic.'
Judy Gold / Stand-Up Comic
Anti Semitic
Be Prepared
Dairy
Fantastic
Miles
Prepared
Queen
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Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.
Ivanka Trump / Businesswoman
Be Prepared
Open Mind
Prepared
Professional Life
Prospects
Twenties
Life Time Mind
Life Time Start
Early Thirties
Explore
Gate
Thirties
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I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.
Luis Fonsi /
Music
Be Prepared
Being Myself
Composition
Guitar
Musician
Performers
Piano
Prepared
Stage
Wanted
Studied
Why
Being
Myself
Try
Music Myself Guitar
Music Myself Believe
Definitely
Singer
Got
Off
Imitate
On And Off
Other
Well
Product
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When you want to be a fighter, you have to give it everything you got. MMA just became who I am because of the amount of work I was putting into my training. It all starts in the gym. The hours turn into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months; it's like school - the more time you spend learning, the better you'll be prepared for a test.
Rose Namajunas / Mixed Martial Artist
Be Prepared
Gym
Mma
Time Work Learning
Work Time Learning
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Sometimes, when you roll out of bed, you don't want to be photographed by the paparazzi. Usually you like to know when you're being photographed. I've learnt that, as a public figure, you have to up your game and be prepared. Ideally, you try not to roll out of bed without brushing your hair - just chuck a brush through it, make a little effort.
Stella Maxwell /
Be Prepared
Bed
Chuck
Effort
Paparazzi
Prepared
Brush
Roll
Figure
Ideally
Learnt
Photographed
Public Figure
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To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.
Manuel Pellegrini / Football Manager
Be Prepared
Convince
Different Ways
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