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• You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Opportunity, Nba

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• I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!

  Casey Converse

  Champion, Tonight, Felt

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• Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Said

  "Random Thoughts". townhall.com. September 03, 2007.

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• We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.

  John Owen

  Yield, Hands, World

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• A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.

  Atul Gawande

  Differences, Risk, Triumph

  "Failure and Rescue" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2012.

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• What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

  Tony Abbott

  People, Choices, Economic

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. May 24, 2009.

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• Before I knew what affliction meant, I was ready sometimes to wish for it

  Mary Rowlandson

  Wish, Affliction, Sometimes

  Mary Rowlandson (2014). “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”, p.104, Diderot Publishing

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• One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

  Henry Moore

  Important, Each Day, Awareness

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• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Asking Why, Views

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

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• The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Sports, Risk, Racing

  "Sebastian Vettel says Dan Wheldon's death highlights need for safety". www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Crazy, Extroverts, Stuff

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Night

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• Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

  Doug Ferguson

  Sports, Mean, Golf

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• The egg of a bird hatches only when the chick within is ready

  Liam Williams

  Eggs, Bird, Preparation

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• I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.

  Channing Tatum

  Song, Sex, Crazy

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• Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
  And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
  Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
  On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
  A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
  The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
  And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
  Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Rain, Past

  Wang Wei, “Looking Down In A Spring-Rain”

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• The first time I had sex, I was scared I got the girl pregnant. And that was despite the fact we were safe. Luckily, we were fine. I would never risk not wearing a condom, it’s too much of a risk. If you’re not ready for a child, then don’t risk it.

  Harry Styles

  Girl, Sex, Children

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• Nonsmokers--this is for you and you only. Ready? Nonsmokers die every day. Sleep tight.

  Bill Hicks

  Sleep, Dies

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed

  Roger Clemens

  New York, Team, Yankees

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• These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.

  John Carlos

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Dust

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• We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, Darkness, Peers

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.140, Macmillan

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• When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frankly, I didn't think I was ready. I wasn't comfortable that I was prepared to do the job.

  Ben Chandler

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.

  William D. Leahy

  Fashion, Children, War

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• Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you dont want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

  Sean Paul

  Eye, Role Models, Important

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