Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes

Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

Carol Plum-Ucci

• Feels
• Needs
• Belief
• Bullshit
• Skyscraper
• Postmodern
• Mules
• Stallions

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• I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Know
  • Hair
  • Drive

• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Dress

• Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Fashion
  • Still
  • Expert

• Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Painting

• The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Character
  • Lies

• I just finished doing a large Holocaust piece, a seated figure over seven feet tall. It's gigantic. It's going to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Holocaust
  • Michigan
  • Ann Arbor

• When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Couple
  • Process
  • Painful

• Michael [Schumacher] was a phenomenal driver but for me, Ayrton Senna was the greatest ever. If I could get one world championship that would be great; if I could win three, the same number as Ayrton did, that would be a dream. But I want to be the best driver there has ever been.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • Dream

• With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

  

  Qiu Jin
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Responsibility

• Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings

• The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

  

  Saint Augustine

• If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Blessed

• Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing?

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Wearing

• I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Together
  • Team
  • Film

• The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Success
  • Single

• The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Food
  • Defeat
  • Abundance

• War is capitalism with the gloves off.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • War
  • Capitalism
  • Gloves

• Only Los Angeles could produce a creature such as myself. New York is a boutique city. You have to be wealthy and of privilege to be able to live comfortably there.

  

  Vaginal Davis
  • Live
  • City
  • New York

• Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.

  

  Vivica A. Fox
  • Mean
  • Needs
  • Persons

• When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Song
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Mean

• Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Belief