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Percentages are why I am rich. -- Brigitte Bardot
Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity. -- Mary E. Pearson
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. -- Lance Armstrong
I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game. -- Alton Brown
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. -- David M. Shoup
Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique -- Jeff Van Gundy
Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life -- Dennis Prager
The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent. -- George Verwer
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. -- Bobby Bragan
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine. -- Sergey Brin
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances. -- Kavita Ramdas
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on. -- David Remnick
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors. -- John Stuart Mill
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. -- Michael Nesmith
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble. -- Henry Hazlitt
Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field. -- Brian Tracy
Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise. -- Jillian Michaels
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer. -- Anthony Bourdain
The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation. -- Susie Dent
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The Protestant wing of the western church, which is a tiny percentage of the Body of Christ, is nearly completely (98%) unaware that the Holy Spirit is restoring contemplative prayer-center stage-to the church The Holy Spirit is restoring this precious jewel (contemplative prayer) to the body of Christ. This is the God ordained means of attaining the fullness of God. -- Mike Bickle
It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news. -- Eckhart Tolle
Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do. -- Roy H. Williams
Obviously the more pucks you get to the net, the more the percentages go up. -- Greg Moore
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines. -- Barbara Walters
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. -- Gunter Grass
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
What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent. -- James Levine
The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers. -- Nick Clegg
Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations. -- Oscar Arias
I don't read good reviews. I like to know what percentages are going on. When Sony sends out something saying that people are liking the movie, I like to know that, but I don't actually sit and read the good stuff. -- Evan Goldberg
That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that. -- Kenny Troutt
We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people. -- Todd English
Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages. -- Byron Nelson
Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages. -- Florynce Kennedy
God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives. -- Daniel Palmer
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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
[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself. -- Russell Simmons
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier. -- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure. -- Eric Clapton
The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens. -- Frank Scoblete
Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion. -- Mario Puzo
I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores. -- John M. Culkin
This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about? -- Charles Schumer

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