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Eighty percent of success is showing up. -- Woody Allen
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected. -- Philip Emeagwali
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason
Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal. -- Carol Roth
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe. -- Phil McGraw
Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on. -- Josette Sheeran
People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life. -- John Walsh
Eighty percent of love is smell. -- Tom Robbins
Eighty percent of language lies to us. -- Deena Metzger
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. -- Brian Tracy
Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise. -- Phil McGraw
Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. -- Ronald Reagan
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. -- Heather Mills
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad. -- Tommy Lasorda
Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans. -- Geert Wilders
Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. -- Sarah Hall
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. -- John Corigliano
Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn't exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that? -- Tim Cook
Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose. -- David Pleat
Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. -- John Green
Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior? -- Polycarp
Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness. -- Nita Lowey
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. -- Billy Barty
Eighty-five per cent of the time, people want to talk about 'True Romance.' That's the film I've made that really seems to have stuck with people. -- Christian Slater
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense. -- Louis A. Johnson
Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them. -- Paul Claudel
Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future. -- Jay Chiat
Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing? -- W. Edwards Deming
The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger. -- Tony Abbott
I eat organic and cook my food whenever possible, and I live by the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I'm Stash all the way, 20 percent I enjoy the things I want. -- Laura Prepon
Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you. -- Helen Van Slyke
Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you're confident and you'll get there. -- Marisa Miller
I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them. -- E. J. Holub
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read. -- James G. Stavridis
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better. -- W. Edwards Deming
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts. -- Billy Wilder
Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason. -- Bob Hope
Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test. -- Gary Player
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up. -- Woody Allen
You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty. -- John Lanchester
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I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. -- John Lydon
According to the California Hospital Association, health care for illegal aliens is costing state taxpayers well over $1 billion a year. Eighty-four hospitals across California have already been forced to close because of unpaid bills by illegal aliens. -- Ann Coulter
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead. -- Kamala Harris
Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle. -- Louis Schwartzberg
You know, like, none of us would choose - no matter where we are in the world - would choose to you know become a member of Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" world, but how much choice is really the question. -- Sheena Iyengar
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh? -- John Green
My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business. -- Meg Whitman
Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.' -- Clayton Christensen
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think VelÃ¡squez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?! -- Marisha Pessl
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I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it. -- Nikola Tesla
Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor. -- Mary Roach
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams of people on the frontline in the battle against feral animals, wildfires and noxious weeds. Science underpins everything we do. -- Kristy Hinze
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. -- Frank Luntz
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do. -- Mary Schapiro
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love. -- Jean Reno
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. -- Henny Youngman
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. -- Ben Hogan
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. -- Mark Twain
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. -- Lou Holtz
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. -- Lord Byron
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -- Henry Ford
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. -- Douglas Coupland
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. -- David Ogilvy
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. -- Baltasar Gracian
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. -- Voltaire
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. -- Doris Lessing
Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. -- John Lautner
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. -- Carl Jung
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. -- Jules Verne
What a lot of people don't realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone. -- Michael Caine
I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty. -- Jimmy Dean
Life begins at eighty. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
In a dream you are never eighty. -- Anne Sexton
At eighty things do not occur; they recur. -- Alan Bennett
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors. -- David Ben-Gurion
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What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking? -- Sebastian Barry
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady. -- Juliette Lewis
So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. -- Chris LeDoux
Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter. -- Milton Berle
The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five. -- Terry Pratchett
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. -- Henry Ford
Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch! -- George Burns
At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around. -- Milton Berle
One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time -- Sid Waddell
At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed! -- Ludwig von Mises
Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate. -- George Pataki
Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. -- Isaac Asimov
You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. -- Barack Obama
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. -- Charlotte Bronte
I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I'd smelled in eighty years. -- Stephenie Meyer
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. -- Jean Renoir
You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic. -- George Carlin
At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again. -- Patricia McConnell
I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did. -- Roscoe Arbuckle
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. -- Bill Vaughan
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. -- Robert Johnson
In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure. -- Jon Winokur
I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die. -- Sarah Kane
I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young. -- Jeanne Moreau
Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. -- David Steinberg
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. -- Henry Ford
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. -- George Burns
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. -- Brian Tracy
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. -- Robert A. Heinlein
An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah. -- George Wein
The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings. -- Jim Gaffigan
When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up. -- Betty Friedan
Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent. -- George Carlin
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. -- Octavia Butler
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. -- William E. Gladstone

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