“ Having a plan on paper does nothing to protect us,... Next month is too late. The United States is woefully unprepared for this, and we must get started immediately. ”
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“ The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
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“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”
- Fred A. Allen- Copy
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“ The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ”
- Ruth Gordon- Copy
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“ He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly. ”
- Stephen Hess- Copy
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“ It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema. ”
- Amitabh Bachchan- Copy
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“ Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. ”
- Mel Brooks- Copy
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“ It usually takes me three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ”
- Alden Nowlan- Copy
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“ It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot. ”
- Amy Poehler- Copy
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“ A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too, Who both antedate our mission In an unprepared season? ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ”
- Ruth Gordon- Copy
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“ But I... never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised. ”
- Larry David- Copy
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“ My opposition lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
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“ It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ What you are going to see (Monday), I take it, is an unrehearsed president, a president without makeup, so to speak, standing in front of the grand jury getting some very tough questions,... Late Edition. ”
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