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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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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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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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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I find this life so interesting.
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Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don't make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it's an artistic endeavor.
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While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.
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Government research has to go through peer review.
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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
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For the readers out there, if your girlfriend says she's having a girls' weekend, do not show up with a bottle of rose. No one wants to see your face there.
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There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.
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People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
