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• I'm always ready to step up and take that shot.

  Ray Allen

  Steps, Step Up, Shots

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• Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

  Tika Sumpter

  Weed, Moving, Opportunity

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• I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.

  Claire Forlani

  England, Reason, Absurd

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• The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

  Colleen Haskell

  Waiting Around, Afternoon, Sometimes

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• We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Pride, Desire, May

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• It’s not a playoff game, it’s like the Super Bowl. … This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know they’re going to be ready to play. This is going to be a physical game. I’m sure that I’m going to be ready and I know my boys are going to be ready to back it up.

  Jason Pierre-Paul

  Boys, Blood, Games

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• Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

  Michael Bierut

  Design, Favors

  Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.13, Chronicle Books

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• The world isn't ready for what I have to say.

  Brian David Mitchell

  World

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• If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on the world.... I could snap my fingers and have any man I wanted, but I have too much respect for myself for that.... People can look then wonder about the taste and the sensuous delights of the dish, but when it comes down to it they simply can't afford such an expensive luxury.

  Anna Kournikova

  Men, Luxury, Clothes

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• When I step onto the court, I'm ready to play. If you're going up against me, you'd better be ready. If you're not going to compete, I will dominate you.

  Michael Jordan

  Play, Steps, Court

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• This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table

  George W. Bush

  Iran, United States, Tables

  Meeting with E.U. Leaders in Brussels, Belgium, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 22, 2005.

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• As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

  Ariel Sharon

  Moving, Israel, Long

  Interview With Matt Rees, content.time.com. May 14, 2005.

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• When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Determination, Rights, Israel

  Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• When the curtain falls no one is ready

  Olive Schreiner

  Fall, Curtains

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Hate, Knives, Tongue

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• I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Thinking, Ready To Die, Dies

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

  Marshall Vian Summers

  Spiritual, Heaven, Firsts

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• When I'm a ship tossed around on the waves, Up on a highwire that's ready to break. When I've had just about all I can take, baby you save me

  Kenny Chesney

  Baby, Happy Love, Ships

  Song: You Save Me, 2005

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• You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

  Alison McGhee

  Powerful, People, Expectations

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• No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Christian, Pain

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• Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

  Hal Boyle

  Summer, Memories, Spring

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• If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Adequate, Never Fear

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Men, Rifles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Past, Men, Decision

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.559, Transaction Publishers

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• Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Trends, Outcomes, Reactions

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