The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes, but get this, [Donald] Trump's percentage of the popular vote… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of… — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The first thing you notice about women in Hollywood, besides their low percentage of body fat, is how few are married. And… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
We must limit to a reasonable amount the Jewish influence...Whenever the Jewish percentage of total population becomes too high, a reaction seems… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I don't make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation,… — Pele Copy Share Image
Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I just got the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police.We have endorsements from, I think, almost every police group, very -… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the… — George Verwer Copy Share Image
In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business… — Barry O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic,… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure,… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success… — Harold Sherman Copy Share Image
Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image