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• As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Levels, Sound, Boards

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• My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

  Steve Blank

  Business, What Matters, Data

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• A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ocean, Air

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

  Jim Jarmusch

  School, Nyu, Degrees

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Tennis, Monsters

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• I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
  25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
  true.

  Harry S. Truman

  Actors, Remember, Politician

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• Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Hundred

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.

  Larry Brilliant

  Mean, People, Google

  "Feeling Lucky". Interview with Evan Ratliff, www.wired.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don’t have any of those things.
  They stare at us, they don’t miss anything. They really see what’s going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We’re too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what’s happening.

  Peter Straub

  Thinking, Color, Smell

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.

  Niki Lauda

  Air, Use, Alliances

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Italian, Birth, Grew

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• At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ambition

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• History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

  Meg Whitman

  Thinking, California, Differences

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of up to 40%.

  Harry Reid

  Retirement, Cutting, Benefits

  "The New Bush Agenda: A Debate on Social Security with Paul Krugman vs. the American Enterprise Institute". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, www.democracynow.org. February 3, 2005.

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• An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Years, Growing, Economy

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• I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Rights, Care

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• I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

  Hal Linden

  Moving, Starting Over, Roles

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• If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.

  Michele Bachmann

  Weekend, Years, Yesterday

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• I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or 65 percent of me is.

  Lars von Trier

  Clear, Knows, American Woman

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• When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

  Sinclair Lewis

  Names, Usa, America

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• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Race

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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• I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Mean, Love Is, Radio

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