Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes
People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
Carol Plum-Ucci
Quotes to Explore
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
Ma Jun
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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.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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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.
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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.
Gavin Hood
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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.
Vernon Howard
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
Cy Twombly
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When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.
Parker Conrad
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The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.
Mark Duplass
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
William Faulkner
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The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.
Anne Sweeney
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The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
Alexander Berkman
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People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
Carol Plum-Ucci
