Percentages Quotes - Page 8

• The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

  Steve Winwood

  Dream, Mean, Men

  Song: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys

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• You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

  David James Duncan

  Soul, Papa, Males

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.12, Dial Press

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• Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and faithful and true one to another? There is no simple answer. I acknowledge that. But it appears to me that there are some obvious reasons that account for a very high percentage of these problems. I say this out of experience in dealing with such tragedies. I find selfishness to be the root cause of most of it.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, Simple, Loyal And Faithful

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• Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Pay, Bigs, Employee

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• On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

  Dusty Baker

  Running, Home, Clogging Up

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• At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Math, Boys

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• I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.

  George Jung

  Marijuana, Thinking, People

  Interview with PBS Frontline, www.pbs.org. 2000.

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• The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, People, Black

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• More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

  David Duke

  White, Europe, Law

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• The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

  Rue McClanahan

  Kids, Different, Audience

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Wicked's Rue McClanahan Plus News of Cook, Eder and Menzel". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 22, 2005.

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• I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Ignorance, America

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• People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

  Roger Ebert

  Learning Something New, Small Numbers, Media

  Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.432, University of Chicago Press

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• Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

  Marvin Olasky

  Jobs, Feminist, Athletic

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• Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

  Cordell Hull

  Government, Years, One Day

  Remarks in the House, Congressional Record, vol. 50, p. 505, April 26, 1913.

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• I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.

  Rutger Hauer

  Play, People, Guy

  Actor Rutger Hauer Is Retribution Personified" by Rick Paulas, www.wired.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Body, Prostitution, Depreciation

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• The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Numbers, Return

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Nice, Law, Class

  "Sandra Day O'Connor Explores Supreme Court History, Inner Workings". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 3, 2013.

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• I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they can shop abroad anyway. It's just not what I had in mind. I wanted to bring international fashion to as many people here as possible, who don't usually get exposed to such styles.

  Esteban Cortazar

  Fashion, People, Style

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.

  Mark Shields

  Defeated, Barack, Ifs

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• Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it was a resounding victory. I mean, whether his core constituency was 20 percent or what, his electoral constituency, which is how we measure elections, was 53 percent, which was, you know, historically high, the highest of any Democrat, other than Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Mean, Years

  "Shields and Brooks: Will Voters Think Democrats Have Gone Too Liberal?". PBS Newshour, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2010.

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• The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

  Spencer Abraham

  School, America, Ratios

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• When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

  Cornel West

  Children, School, Black And White

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• To say you're going to wiggle your nose and that is going to happen, it won't happen. If you look at major companies who are doing wonderful things, wonderful things and they give their portfolio billions of dollars that they make and they give away $10 million or so, when you start putting the percentages there, what we are doing is significant.

  Paula White

  Giving, Noses, Portfolios

  Source: culteducation.com

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• First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read Hap and Leonard, but a large percentage are crossover readers. And yes, I did refuse to go to Vietnam and it looked like prison was in my future, but they sent me to the psychiatrist and he gave me a 1-Y, which is unfit for military service essentially.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Military, Vietnam, Stuff

  Source: thequietus.com

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