Carol Plum-Ucci Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
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While the move to central clearing has made the system safer, we need to make sure that the central counterparties have the resources and risk-management practices to withstand plausible but severe shocks.
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As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
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Football ruled my life for years, morning, noon and night.
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When I was a teenager, I worked on a show that was about a family.
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
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At home, I like my kids to drink out of stainless steel tumblers. They are non-breakable and non-toxic.
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The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
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I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.
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I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.
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Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.
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I don't have much patience with sick people.
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People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.
