Platforms Quotes - Page 17

• In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.

  Kevin Spacey

  Wisdom, Thinking, Years

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• All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.

  James Gosling

  Running, Hurt, Tools

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• The content defines the platform, so whereas when I was working at ABC from '66 to '76, people said it was the "great wasteland." It was the least-objectionable program that succeeded. It was, if you could get behind "All in the Family," you were successful.

  Henry Blodget

  Successful, People, Program

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

  Bridget Riley

  Aquariums, Play, Essentials

  Bridget Riley, Neil MacGregor, Robert Kudielka (1995). “Bridget Riley: dialogues on art”

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• Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

  DeVon Franklin

  Stories, Foundation, Ready

  FaceBook post by DeVon Franklin from Jun 20, 2016

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• You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.

  Robin Sharma

  Genius, Excuse

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• I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Beach, Book, Magazines

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• I know first hand what its like to be called names and to be affected by things. They would call me fat, they would call me promiscuous in different words. At the time, when I was 12-years-old, that was like the end of the world. To me, bullying is one of my biggest platforms. Lets change the world.

  Demi Lovato

  Bullying, Hands, Years

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• It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

  J. C. Ryle

  Kings, Rip, Writing

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.309, Whitaker House

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• It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.

  Allen West

  Nice, Upset, Would Be

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• I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or start new things. When I got there, I started living for the first time.

  Antony Hegarty

  Beautiful, New York, People

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• I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

  Miranda Lambert

  Cowboy, Makeup, Boots

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• When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

  Bill Crawford

  Ideas, People, Wish

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• If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Political, Coal

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• Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

  Elif Safak

  Europe, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

  Tobin Heath

  Soccer, Purpose, Littles

  "A conversation with U.S. women’s soccer team member Tobin Heath". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off of, and that script was very high up there. It was a very smart, tight script. There was a lot of improv, as well, once we got to the set, but a lot of the original script was also in there.

  Justin Theroux

  Jobs, Smart, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Views, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

  Dave Winer

  Needs, Ships, Approval

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• I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Moving, Talking, Strange

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• There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Promise, Politics

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• Your social platform will become the motherboard of your business.

  Sandy Carter

  Social

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• I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Design, Hobbies, Development

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• I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Integrity, Night, United States

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• A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

  James Harrington

  Writing, Army, Men

  James Harrington, J. G. A. Pocock (1992). “Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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