Platinum Quotes

• I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

  Caroline Corr

  Country, Mean, Confusing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Animal, Ems, Use

  'A Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896) 'The Hippopotamus'.

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• Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles - and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech - look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

  Philip Roth

  Mother, Humorous, Florida

  "Portnoy's Complaint". Book by Philip Roth, 1969.

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• People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

  Soulja Boy

  Stars, Artist, Media

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• My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it.

  Brooke Burns

  Summer, Dark, Color

  "'Miss Guided' Brooke Burns spills secrets" by Shawna Malcom, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2008.

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• All I know is gold and platinum, and I want to be platinum.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Gold, Want, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

  Lil' Mama

  Bombshells, Want, Ifs

  "Lil Mama On Her Style Evolution; Nicki Minaj & Being A Curse-Free Rapper". Interview with Tray Hova, www.vibe.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

  Vijender Singh

  Achievement, Way, Timeless

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• When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Oxygen, Poetry

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.16, HMH

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• I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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• I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

  Gary Wright

  Uplifting, Real, People

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'.

  Wesley Pruden

  Honor

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• I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?

  Beck

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Blender magazine, October 2002.

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• I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

  Obie Trice

  Artist, Black, Detroit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

  Willard Scott

  Inspirational, Retirement, Productive Life

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• With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  America, People, Failing

  "The Quotable Kareem" by Chris Suellentrop, www.wired.com. March 7, 2007.

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

  Eminem

  Ifs

  "Song: Till I collapse". 2002.

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• I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, People, Community

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• Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

  Shania Twain

  People, Albums, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.

  Paullina Simons

  Wall, Fall, Night

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• Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

  Rick Riordan

  Numbers, Lucky, Investing

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• J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.

  Libba Bray

  Cute, Girl, Boys

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• The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

  Adam Johnson

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House

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• The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be, like, double platinum level.

  Rick Riordan

  Flying, Cards, Levels

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