In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the next 25… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
There are nearly 30% of young people who are too fat. So let's take care of the zillions of the too fat… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects,"… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You can't tell me what we're doing right now is not working. The perception is, well, it's not. I don't deal in… — Tom Glavine Copy Share Image
Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are… — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Debt settlement companies work as a middleman between you and your creditor. If all goes well (and that's a big if), you… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small,… — Esteban Cortazar Copy Share Image
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand… — Rue McClanahan Copy Share Image
We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
For one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers. — Rollie Fingers Copy Share Image
In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage… — Adam Levine Copy Share Image
At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem.… — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
To me, it's more important to take the 60-70% of people who really understand that there's a problem [of climate change] and… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Where were living we have a certain amount of our profit every year its like a percentage 5 or 7% or something… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people,… — Bobby Bragan Copy Share Image
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