Percentages Quotes - Page 15

• Since any reasonable person would choose a Mac over a PC, Apple's market share provides us with an accurate reading of the percentage of reasonable people in our society.

  Roger Ebert

  Reading, Apples, People

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• The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, Believe, Reading

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• Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

  Warren Buffett

  Government, Average, Years

  Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.cnbc.com. October 31, 2007.

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• I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over.

  Claudia Rankine

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

  Iain Glen

  Actors, Spoilt, Ifs

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

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• Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

  Tony Gilroy

  Play, Directors, Actors

  "Talking With Tony Gilroy". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.

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• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  Ed Gillespie

  Home, African American, Today

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• A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

  Marc Andreessen

  Mean, People, Pay

  "Ning will make all users pay" by Douglas MacMillan, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2010.

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• There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

  Marc Andreessen

  Believe, People, Together

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• Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

  David Coverdale

  Rocks, Voice, Band

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• The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.

  Luis Fortuno

  Winning, White, House

  "Puerto Rico Gov. Says Latino VP Would Help GOP Win Latino Vote" By Susanne Ramirez de Arellano, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2012.

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• The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

  Abdallah II

  Jobs, Frustration, People

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• One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

  Mike Judge

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

  Mary McDonnell

  Emotional, Vocabulary, People

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

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• Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

  Jim Rash

  Home, Technology, People

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

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• There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

  Jessica Szohr

  School, People, Handbags

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• In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

  John Lewis

  Mean, Past, Ohio

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• We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

  Charles M. Vest

  Growth, Boards, Cost

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• Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.

  Barry O'Sullivan

  Agriculture, People, Might

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Real, War

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• I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

  James MacArthur

  Home, Giving, Earning

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• I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Thinking, Past, Age

  "Family Matters". Book by Rohinton Mistry, 2002.

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• Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

  Neal Boortz

  Salary, Minimum Wage, Unions

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• I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.

  Joseph Monninger

  Sports, Mean, Makeup

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• And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Team, Winning

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