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• To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was only 25 or 26 and not ready to write my memoirs.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Book, Writing, Firsts

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• If you're not ready to fall, you're not ready to hurdle.

  Tonie Campbell

  Fall, Track, Hurdle

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• I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready...

  Oswald J. Smith

  Prayer, Men, Giving

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• I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.

  Robert Schimmel

  Death, Imagine, Periods

  Robert Schimmel, Alan Eisenstock (2008). “Cancer on Five Dollars a Day Chemo Not Included: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

  Graeme Murphy

  Flower, Tree, Green

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• I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if you are not ready for day
  it cannot always be night.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Night, Slappers, Ready

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

  Ricardo Semler

  Jurassic Park, Way, Parks

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• No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready.

  Phyllis Diller

  Guests, Matter, Ready

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• If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

  Stephen G. Post

  Gratitude, Hurt, Thinking

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• Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together.

  George Carlin

  People, Interesting, Trying

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• When I imagined my life, I always thought I'd be in my mid-30s before I felt capable of marrying. But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, "Screw it. I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on and the possibility of not having this person around." I thought, I'll jump into it and we'll figure it out as we go along.

  Christian Bale

  Regret, Done, Possibility

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• This is my 51st year, but I'm not ready to quit. I definitely didn't think when I first started back in 1963 that I'd be doing this for 50 years, but how many guys can say they do it? When retirement comes, I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be ready for it.

  Verne Lundquist

  Retirement, Thinking, Years

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• Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Doe, Likes

  Democratic National Convention Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 28 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like I don't want my son to hear the rock. I'm going to listen to it only in my private chambers. He'll hear echoes of it and say: "What was that you were listening to papa?" And I'll say: "Nothing son, you're not ready."

  Jack Black

  Kids, Son, Echoes

  "Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny - Jack Black/Kyle Gass Interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Liberty, Energy

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but society would benefit from letting people who are ready for psychedelics have legal acces to them.

  Kary Mullis

  People, Benefits, Ready

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• Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

  Conan O'Brien

  America, Race, Texas

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• I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Years, Female, Waste

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• I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Sexy, Artist, Emotional

  "Amanda Seyfried Talks Sexy Channing and Managing Her OCD in InStyle" by Allie Meriam, www.popsugar.com. December 11, 2012.

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• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Investment, Decline

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• I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Should Have, Worried

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• In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Eye, Dark

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  Damien Hirst

  Names, Chairs, Ready

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

  Mary Karr

  Thinking, Voice, Listening

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