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• During the first campaign, one of my jobs as my husband's spouse was to travel around the country and really listen to women. There were voices that were new to me: the voices of military spouses, many of them women, and veterans.... I was overwhelmed by their challenges, and the notion that we as a country don't even know that these women exist, because we live in a country where one percent of the population protects the rights and freedoms of the other 99 percent of us. I thought that if I had the opportunity to serve as First Lady, I was going to use this platform to be their voice.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Jobs, Husband

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Country, Running, Killers

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Helping Others, America

  "Eva Longoria on Business, Beauty, and Mastering Her Signature Smoky Eye". Interview with Patricia Reynoso, www.glamour.com. March 17, 2015.

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• With moviemaking, you can be halfway around the world for six months. So there are amazing benefits to doing TV, and with the platform change and the way it is, I would never ever rule out doing TV again.

  Chris Pratt

  Six Months, Benefits, World

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.

  Harry Shearer

  Running, War, Able

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Party, Political, Active

  "Yes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Marry You". Interview with Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2014.

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• When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.

  Farrah Gray

  People, Empowering, Political

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• John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Good Friend, Groups

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.

  Chuck D

  Color, People, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Saint, Poet, Lows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.116, Harvard University Press

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• There's people out there with nuclear bombs and yet we've got all these politicians trying to make a political platform based on a record. Isn't it ridiculous?

  Ice T

  People, Political, Trying

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time. Now, it would be difficult for me to make the switch to any other platform. I've spent a fair amount of money on apps that continue to ride with me as I upgrade my iS devices. The iPhone certainly has its share of flaws and shortcomings, but having spent a great deal of time with other devices that claim to be "killer" continue to fall short. The industry needs competition, but I just need my mobile communications computer to work with a healthy array of software.

  Chris Pirillo

  Fall, Communication, Iphone

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• The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

  Jenny Shipley

  Giving, Independence, Facts

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• The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

  Kit Williams

  Men, Hands, Wheels

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• I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Thinking, Shoes

  "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.

  Barack Obama

  Our World, Entrepreneur, Community

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

  Shakira

  Real, Speaks Out, Voice

  "Glamour's February Cover Star, Shakira, Tells Us: "I'm Not on Earth Just to Shake It and Shake It Endlessly" By Jason Sheeler, www.glamour.com. January 7, 2014.

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• Social media is your platform to build a unique fan base while you express yourself exactly how you see yourself. Build wisely.

  Germany Kent

  Unique, Media, Fans

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• If more girls are educated, all of India stands to gain. The Girl Rising campaign aims to address that through various innovative initiatives that will not only help create awareness but also create a tangible platform to effect change.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Girl, India, Campaigns

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  Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people.

  Kevin Durant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Mvp

  "Kevin Durant's Emotional MVP Acceptance Speech: 'I'd Like to Thank God for Changing My Life'" by Eric Corpus, www.christianpost.com. May 7, 2014.

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• It's possible in today's world to be instantly famous, whether it's through Instagram or whatever platform it may be, but it's a very different matter to be successful financially and in the long-term

  Anna Wintour

  Successful, Long, Different

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• The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.

  Paul McCartney

  Choices, Empowering, Important

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• Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

  Brandon Marshall

  Football, Purpose, World

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• The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Stories, Problem, Social Network

  "5 Reasons Everyone Hates You On Twitter" by Shanelle Mullin, www.businessinsider.com. January 16, 2014.

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• Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978.

  Newt Gingrich

  Corruption

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