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

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

  Jamie Foxx

  Christmas, Men, Thinking

  "Jamie Foxx Interview - THE SOLOIST" by Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 23, 2009.

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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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• 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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• I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

  Randy Travis

  Song, Writing, Winning

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• If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

  Og Mandino

  Cards, Credit, Ingredients

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.123, Bantam

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  House, Records, Garage

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• I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

  John Sexton

  Black And White, Artist, Technology

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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Years, House, Cards

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