Percent Quotes
2114 Percent quotes by 1567 unique authors
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that…
— Warren Buffett
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We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of…
— Warren Buffett
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Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
— George W. Bush
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You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional…
— Sophia Bush
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that…
— Smedley Butler
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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100…
— Smedley Butler
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Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them…
— David Byrne
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I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until…
— Herman Cain
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each…
— Herman Cain
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When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over…
— Tony Campolo
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,…
— Sherman Alexie
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People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
— George Washington Carver
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A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking…
— Robert Casey
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
— Fred Allen
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We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
— Hugo Chavez
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Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
— John Cheever
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When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote…
— Dick Cheney
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In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
— Deepak Chopra
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
— Woody Allen
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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
— Isabel Allende
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In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than…
— William J. Clinton
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Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.
— Kirstie Alley
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