Percentages Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Play, Way

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• I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.

  Megan Griffiths

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

  David Shrigley

  Editing, Drawing, Made

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One way in which we can encourage the Chinese government to take more vigorous action to control food safety in their country is by just saying we're not going to buy Chinese foods until they get their system cleaned up. Admittedly it's a difficult system to get under control because an astonishing percentage - maybe 80 percent - of the foods in China are produced in small backyard operations.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Government, Safety

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Stripes, Males, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Country, Children, Gdp

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• On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much.

  Mitch Williams

  Mean

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• If on-base percentage is so important, then why don't they put it up on the scoreboard?

  Jeff Francoeur

  Important, Scoreboard, Ifs

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• Percentages are why I am rich.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Rich

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• Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Children, Men, Long

  "The Pragmatics of Patriotism". Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, April 5, 1973.

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• People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable.... However, we do not accept the same standard when it comes to our personal life. If we did, we would resign ourselves to being shortchanged now and then when we cash our paychecks. We would expect hospital nurses to drop a certain percentage of all newborn babies. We would expect to go home to the wrong house periodically. As individuals we do not tolerate these things. Thus we have a double standard, one for ourselves, one for the company.

  Phil Crosby

  Baby, Believe, Home

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• When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!

  Jeanine Basinger

  Men, Dumb, Teeth

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• I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

  Robin Ince

  Library, Hush, Reasonable

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• A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.

  Emily Gould

  Writing, Publishing House, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

  Alan Greenspan

  Jobs, Skills, Risk

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• The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.

  Robert Prechter

  Moving, Loss, Average

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• Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

  Julian Bond

  Vote, Defeated, Knows

  "NAACP Blames IRS Probe on Critical Speech". www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2004.

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• Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black And White, Differences, Justice

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.

  Cinco Paul

  Enough, Mathematical, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• The highest percentage of respondents say that biggest problem in the country is the government. The biggest problem facing our country today is that our government is terrible. Dissatisfaction with the government, problem numero uno by a mile.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Government, Today

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