Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes
People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
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If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.
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My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.
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A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.
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A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
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Typically in a panic, corporate bonds sell off as investors fear weaker growth, tighter financial conditions, or need liquidity.
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It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
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My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to storytelling around women's lives.
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People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
