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• In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting your kids to read: "Moms come up to me at book signings and describe how they're telling their daughters, 'These were my favorite books,'?" she says. "I say, 'Quit it! That's the biggest turnoff!'"You want to get them to read them, leave them around the house and every so often, say, 'You're not ready to read this yet.'

  Judy Blume

  Mom, Daughter, New York

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• You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

  Stephen Daldry

  Book, Responsibility, Emotional

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• Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

  Brad Bird

  Couple, Littles, Unexpected

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• I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Drinking, Wine

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Running, Hot And Cold

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• Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.

  Riyad Mansour

  Peace, Doors, Effort

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• There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.

  Jimmy Sangster

  Ignorance, Science, Discovery

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• None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving, Liberty, Ready

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Odds, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures.

  Timothy Leary

  People, Urban, Christianity

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Evolutionary Agents”, p.43, Ronin Publishing

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• It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Facts, Vote

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.

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• I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up.

  Terri Clark

  Thinking, Retiring, Ready

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• Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop.

  Peter Hook

  Yeah, Ready, Things To Do

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• I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

  Audrey Tautou

  Compromise, Ready

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• I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

  Dean Koontz

  Death, Mean, Odd Thomas

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.16, Bantam

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• Our deepest calling is not to grow in our knowledge of God. It is to make disciples. Our knowledge will grow -- the Holy Spirit, Jesus promised, will guide us into all truth. But that's not our calling, it is His. Our calling is to prepare the world for Christ's return. The world is not ready yet. And so, we go about introducing a dying world to the Savior of Life. Anything we do toward our own growth must be toward that end.

  Jeff Bryant

  Jesus, Growth, Dying

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• Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

  Michael Tanner

  Thinking, Government, Church

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• One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

  Idries Shah

  Thinking, Assessment, People

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.159, Octagon Press Ltd

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• How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.

  Jesse Ventura

  Mean, Thinking, Punishment

  "I Ain't Got Time To Bleed". Book by Jesse Ventura, 1999.

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• Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

  James Taylor

  Knowing, Important, Quitting

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

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• The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I’m really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.

  Ronda Rousey

  Morning, Beats, Belts

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• I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

  Tom Hayden

  Mean, Giving, Answers

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• I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

  Shane Carruth

  Reality, Want, Reason

  "Shane Carruth Reveals The Mysteries Of ‘Upstream Color’". Interview with Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. April 8, 2013.

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• It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

  Steven Pressfield

  Race, Air, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.37, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I am not ready to back away from my views.

  Alexei Navalny

  Views, Ready

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