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• I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

  Junot Diaz

  Reading, Events, Kind

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• The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Military, Play, Challenges

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• In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

  Paula Deen

  Morning, Order, Giving

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• There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

  Louis C. K.

  Real, Home, Just Do It

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• When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

  Miley Cyrus

  Strong, Moving, Voice

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• I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

  Tom Cruise

  Life, Thinking, Knowing

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• I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Hair, Planning

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• What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

  David Ruelle

  Baby, Science, Finding Yourself

  David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press

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• You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eras, Study

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• In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teacher, Singing, Opera

  "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.

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• It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  People, Appreciate, Rejection

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• As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

  Tom Udall

  Learning, Issues, Nuclear

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• Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Devil, Roaring

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• There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE

  George B. Cortelyou

  Ambition, Cities, Earth

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• Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Jobs, Wall

  "Kill the JOBS Act!" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. March 19, 2012.

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• We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, People, World

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• As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

  Adam Sandler

  Kids, Mirrors, Roles

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• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  Rachel McAdams

  World, Theory, Scenery

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

  John Malkovich

  Taken, Character, Mean

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• When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Motivation, Inspiration, Risk

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• We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Mean, Direct Action

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• When the Holy Spirit calls your to fast, He is preparing you for what is ahead.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting, Spirit, Holy

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• When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

  Zig Ziglar

  Winning, Famous Motivational, Planning

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.21, AudioInk

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• Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

  Paul Cellucci

  Play, Roles, Canada

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• Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside.

  Juliette Binoche

  Reflection, Growth, Possibility

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