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.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Understanding

• 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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Always
  • See

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • History
  • Age
  • Disasters

• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Control
  • Back
  • Greatest

• I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Success

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Family
  • Talk
  • Through

• 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.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Black
  • Road
  • Clothes

• By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Everyone

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Hand

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Want
  • Song

• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Ideas
  • Moral
  • Aesthetic

• 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.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Book
  • You
  • Something

• If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.

  

  Vernon Howard

• I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Romantic

• Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

  

  Payne Stewart
  • People

• Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

  

  M. Shadows
  • People
  • Good
  • Rock

• David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

  

  Dennis Miller
  • People
  • Job
  • Fun

• People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • People
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