I never would have thought, when I was 23 and first stepped foot in that ring, that it would give me a platform to use my voice.
Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
I don’t want to be super serious but I want to have fun with my platform. I want to touch people, I want to be relatable and let girls know that you can go to college and still pursue what you want after that.
Keeping a ‘CEO blog’ or ‘founder’s blog’ can be a great platform for engaging your users in a nontraditional way, reaching people outside of your product pitch and building rapport without selling them anything except a belief in your ideas.
Aw, man, it’s huge to actually have a platform and let the world see Reality of Wrestling as well as to be able to compete with all the other independent companies around the world.
As an artist development platform, we’ve proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the rigors of the intense live shows, can properly prepare a winner for a real-world music career opportunity.
The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it’s seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We’re a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we’re going to build on it.
Justices are not politicians. They don’t run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
On the Republican Party platform and the major issues of the Republican Party, Charlie Dent is significantly removed from those foundational principles in his voting record.
I’m a professional maker of online video and I love platform diversity of every kind.
We are increasingly using social media to drive both engagement and commerce. And because we are a commerce platform that integrates content, we believe we have a unique opportunity to make up a high button, a relative factor in social.
I think, as athletes, we’ve been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you’ve been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share… His truth in love.
Social media gives a lot of people a platform where they can express their feelings. I like to do mine through songs. I let info build up. In some way, it translates into paper whenever I sit down.
I view music as entertainment. When I’m on stage, I don’t look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I’d be a zealot myself. That’s why, when people ask me, ‘Do you think you can change the world through your music?’ I say, ‘I doubt it.’
We look to find partners whose values align with that of our artists. We also look for unique platforms that the potential branding partner can provide. Sometimes that’s distribution, and sometimes it’s an advertising platform. Each situation is unique.
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.
I enjoy Instagram because it is a visual medium platform, with more photographs.
I’ve been blessed with a platform and a voice, and I owe it to myself and my family and our people to use it responsibly.
We should strive to be the most sophisticated and efficient platform for the world to do business with the mainland and for Chinese enterprises to be connected with the world.
I’ve been given a platform with the UFC, so I might as well share my story.
The genre thing is overrated, and the platform decisions are overrated. It’s what we see on ‘Fortnite’: so many of these gamers play on a variety of devices, so you can’t say they’re a mobile gamer or a console gamer. They’re just a gamer.
I’m very grateful for the platform that I’ve had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
One of the things that was missing from the 2014 election was a Contract With America type of platform.
I’ve been lucky enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an activist.
I know I’m a storyteller at heart, and if there’s a platform that needs stories, I’m going be there.
I had done some community theater plays and I just had so much fun doing it. I was a really shy kid growing up and it gave me a platform to be able to express myself in a way that I didn’t feel comfortable doing yet in my own skin.
After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me – and people would listen.
We’ve built our own technology platform in-house, which operates our website and powers our retail stores.
My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
There have been women who have pioneered and paved the way for me to be able to sit here and to have a platform. And it’s my job and my duty to continue to push the boundary for equality on all spectrums.
With social media, there is a fashion that we speak louder than we think. It has just become a platform where people just judge and spread anger and hate.
Everywhere I’ve managed, I’ve left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don’t necessarily get the recognition for it.
Digital is a fantastic platform to tell your stories.
Onstage at Build, Phil Spencer said the Xbox is an open platform – which surprises me, because you have to get your game concept approved before you start developing it. Then you have to get every update approved. Microsoft has absolute control.
Clean sheets is a misleading statistic. It gives you the platform to win a game but you can lead 5-0 and concede a goal.
Because of the Internet’s open platform, entrepreneurs have started small businesses, innovators have created online services, and webcasters have produced a diversity of news-information sources. We must make sure that winners and losers are decided by the marketplace and not your Internet service provider.
My parents let me get my outfit in the gayest place possible, the ‘International Male Catalog.’ They sold mostly speedos and thongs and clubwear, and I was like, I’m getting that sheer shirt with the dragon on it, and then those vinyl patent leather pants and the cheetah platform boots.
By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs.
I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They’re playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They’re just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It’s an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.
You do not need millions of followers to know and to feel that you have a platform. I feel like everyone should realize that they have a platform regardless of how big their audience is.
One of the things Baidu did well early on was to create an internal platform that made it possible for any engineer to apply deep learning to whatever application they wanted to, including applications that AI researchers like me would never have thought of.
I think there’s a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the position that I’ve been put in, I think it’s important to use my voice to do as much as I can.
Platform flip-flops. Those were crazy. Wait, I don’t think they were ever fashionable. But we saw them everywhere.
It was Delhi that gave me the platform to achieve my dreams.
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.
The way we grow is, we make investments. We’ve been building a natural-gas platform within Duke that started with the pipelines.
We love that our platform allows people to give.
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
We’re about getting all the people who want to compete with Samsung to be able to build devices. So we’re kind of down at the guts level saying, ‘Hey, we can give you the hardware, the sensor platform, the software you need to go build your own one.’
What doctor does not need platform heels and dark black eyeliner to treat their patients?
We’re in a privileged position in sport and, above all, in football. We have a platform.
Wrestling for WWE has definitely helped me a lot to get me to this platform where I’m able to do that, to be as busy as I am and travel the world.
