Eminem

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

American Rapper

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

Indian Actor

Jill Scott

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

American Musician

Lari White

I want to be able to take singles, serve them up to radio on a silver platter and just have them smoke - just obvious great-sounding, great-feeling radio singles.

Fabio Lanzoni

I'd be the biggest hypocrite if I said I really worked very hard for my career, because it was given to me on a silver platter. I can't take any credit.

Italian Actor

Filippo Inzaghi

I didn't have everything served to me on a silver platter during my career; unfair criticism helped me.

Wole Soyinka

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

Nigerian Dramatist

Katarina Witt

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

German Athlete

Darrell Royal

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

American Coach

Sobhita Dhulipala

I love the breakfast culture - I opt for the French platter.

Indian Actress

Platters are often used to make food look attractive when serving to guests.

Food Presentation

Platters often contain a mix of different foods, ideal for sharing at social events.

Variety of Foods

Platters are for serving, not suitable for cooking or heating food.

Not for Cooking

The platter is a key component for DJs to manipulate records and control music.

DJ Equipment

Listeners use the platter on a turntable to start, stop, or scratch records.

Physical Interaction

Even with digital music, 'platter' is still used to describe DJ controllers without records.

Modern Usage

 You know, apart from the horns you'll empty the bones to eat the marrow then you throw it out and the dogs around camp will finish this thing. So there is no waste, you can't afford waste. Then you get presented as a guest with this beautiful platter right here. And if you're a knowledgeable guest you know that

We Are What We Eat:...

 is a little bit of a manufactured identity you know it's always me and the sunset me and this fabulous meal me smiling you know but nobody has a life that's entirely like well if I see an awesome-looking platter of food if I'm taking a picture that also time what I'm

Oversharing on Social...

 you know this is I don't want to hurt any of your guys stuff so can you believe can you assist me in some way to go ahead this is this is your guys aquarium okay we're just here to take the juice of ladder to get it oh I didn't bring a platter Alice

Seizing Sharks PIPE...

 two nights out of the year so when we arrived at longwood for our second night of photography the water lily specialist greeted us with the news that one of the blooms of the giant water platters would open that night hurry he said this baby

Diane Cook & Len...

 need to eat what i needed was a nap portions were always my biggest downfall i come from the land of all you can eat shrimp and endless platters of pasta when somebody showed me what a real single portion of something was it was a

The psychological weight...

 And I've always thought it a shame that these giant, plant-eating dinosaurs are too often portrayed as passive, lumbering platters of meat on the landscape. They're not. Big herbivores can be surly, and they can be territorial --

Hunting for dinosaurs...

 the world handed to him on a silver platter by his mother what nurses him man who's never had a struggle he's not a man who has vision he has a need for his mommy to love him I think he'll be remembered as a man with ambition

Being Joseph Pulitzer PIPE...

 I'm really excited to be part of this this whole process I know my team's excited to be part of this process to have a first descent in a first discovery of a cave that's like given to you on a silver platter is like

First in the Cave PIPE...

 when the Spanish and Portuguese colonists came and conquered the New World. Now what the Spanish also brought with them were just big, dumb hunks of meat on a platter cattle. And their version of cattle management

For the Love of Jaguars...

 water for two years or more could you do that too huh we humans can barely go six hours without a super-sized fast food combo platter two years forget it when the rains finally fall again and