Marc Platt Quotes

I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

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• The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Things
  • Idea
  • Causes

• You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • You
  • Know
  • Something

• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Human
  • Abundance

• I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Everyone
  • Fail

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Couple
  • Doing

• It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • People
  • May
  • Beauty

• I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Play
  • Training

• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Power
  • Change

• Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Playing
  • Standing
  • Box

• I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Ever

• My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Things
  • Suffer
  • Eat

• I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Up
  • Service
  • Doing

• Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Never
  • Judge
  • Clothes

• There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Free
  • Enough
  • Internet

• I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Work
  • Together
  • Work Hard

• Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

  

  Jennie Finch

• The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Live

• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle – mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of c and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Family
  • Vision
  • Memories

• 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.

  

  David Benioff
  • War
  • Girl
  • Alone

• The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

  

  Eric Gurney
  • Free
  • Mood
  • Souls

• I'm lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.

  

  Marc Platt