Cents Quotes - Page 29

• What America needs is a good five-cent cigar.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  America, Smoking, Needs

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• 90 per cent of success is turning up.

  Woody Allen

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• I'm making an announcement: Not one penny will I give to AIDS anything as long as [public sex is allowed in gay bathhouses]. Not cent one. It's a preventable disease. If you don't want to prevent it, I don't want to pay for it.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Sex, Gay, Long

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• As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.

  John Brown Gordon

  War, Army, Slavery

  John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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• And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers.

  Ezra Levant

  Oil, Russia, Goal

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• Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

  Henry John Heinz

  Character, Men, Ability

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• The impact of climate change is relatively small. The average impact on welfare is equivalent to losing a few per cent of income. That is, the impact of a century worth of climate change is comparable to the impact of one or two years of economic growth.

  Richard Tol

  Impact, Average, Years

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• You come out of a store and they give you seventy-five cents change or something, rather than drop it I would always place it in the community. Sometimes I'd flip it into the hat of a busker or give it to a homeless person. But what I most enjoyed was putting it on a windowsill or on a bench seat or somewhere where I knew that the community would get it.

  Jason Mraz

  Giving, Community, Benches

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs.

  Martina Hingis

  Believe, Taken, Talking

  "Hingis tests positive for cocaine", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

  Gene Hackman

  Successful, Luck, Endurance

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• You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.

  Bradford Cox

  Team, Real, Fighting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.

  Suze Orman

  Cards, Credit, Pay

  "Debt vs. debt: Which loans do I pay off first?". "Today" Interview, www.today.com. May 6, 2009.

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• I think it's incredibly basic: we have to now deliver all of the huge advantages of trading with the 92 per cent of people in the world who aren't in the EU, so for me that was the final deciding factor.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Thinking, People, Finals

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.

  Billy Corgan

  Hurt, Government, Roots

  "A Conversation with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."

  John Lewis

  Kings, Fun, Book

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• [Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Giving, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Writing, Dollars

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• We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

  Christine Lagarde

  Taken, Years, Numbers

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• While she [Hillary Clinton] may have a - give lip service to progressive issues, she led the charge, and there she definitely did, in Haiti, to push down the minimum wage from 60 cents an hour down to 40 cents an hour. She, you know, has been the good friend of the big banks forever, and the insurance companies.

  Jill Stein

  Good Friend, Issues, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price.

  Park Chan-wook

  Humorous, Worry, Missing

  "Fantastic Fest 2016 Interview: Co-Writer/Director Park Chan-Wook on THE HANDMAIDEN". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. September 25, 2016.

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• I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or to Sweden. In Sweden I am not charged, I have already been previously cleared [by the Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We were not certain exactly what would happen there, but then we know that the Swedish government has refused to say that they will not extradite me to the United States we know they have extradited 100 per cent of people whom the U.S. has requested since at least 2000.

  Julian Assange

  Senior, Government, People

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!

  Malcolm X

  School, Years, Decision

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Block, One Direction

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

  Michael Marmot

  Height

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• AIDS we're - most of these diseases - we are down from the peak. We're down about 40 per cent from the peak and if we got the right vaccines, which are at the early stage of discovering, then the numbers would come down very dramatically. So that's why we talk about it as an emergency.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Numbers, Disease

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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