Platforms Quotes - Page 2

• I'm on this raised-platform-stage and I'm put on display, but at the same time I'm just a human. I'm just a regular person at the end of the day and, you know, I just want them to know that I do appreciate every single one of them.

  G-Eazy

  Appreciate, The End Of The Day, Want

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moving, Views, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Penguin

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• However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more conservative on these issues, perhaps even than Governor Romney is, and I think that that will give Americans a clear set of choices about all issues, but about women's issues too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Party, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't wear makeup. I can't stand nothin' on my face. It's a phobia. It's not a platform.

  Patti Smith

  Makeup, Faces, Phobia

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

  Little Richard

  Sister, Brother, Children

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• First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Men, Names

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.82

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• Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Technology

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• I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.

  Graydon Carter

  Thinking, President, Environment

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• I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Hate, Attention, Today

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• We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Gay, Men

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• Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Compassion, Way

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• America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While Republicans tailored their platform by and for the pale stale and male, among us, Obama and Democrats are embracing America's diverse mosaic.

  Christine Pelosi

  Math, America, Males

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Years, People

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• There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

  Robert Plant

  Golden, Repeats, No Point

  "Q&A with Robert Plant". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.esquire.com. April 8, 2007.

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• Netflix, Amazon, iTunes - whatever platforms emerge - we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.

  Bob Iger

  Mean, Home, Opportunity

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• The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Technology, People, Together

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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  Talib Kweli

  Jobs, Dope, Rapper

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• One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Running, Writing, Innovation

  "Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook". Interview with Ian Katz, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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• When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...

  Michael Kors

  Kids, Beads

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• One of the things I've become immune to is people talking about market cap and social media platforms.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Media, Talking, People

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• After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

  Jenny Eclair

  Dad, Drama, School

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• I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Comedy, Given

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• A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Gay, Abortion, Favors

  "Faith vs. Fact" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

  Maureen Dowd

  Reading, Bells, Pixels

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• Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Football, Inspire, Changed

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