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“The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.”

Way I Can Reason Home Light Night Guy Dark White Risk Doors Special Percent Sight Bottom Combination Kicks Bad Guys Eighty Kicking Entrances Rail Warrants Lasers White Light High Risk

Author:Steven Seagal

“I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.”

People Writing Believe Hate Force I Believe Comedy Percent I Hate Twenties Eighty Fallacy

Author:Tone Bell

“Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.”

People Thinking Made Dies Ten Percent Eighty

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

Has Beens Two States Age School United United States Percent High School Thirds Jail Prisoner Eighty Dropouts School Dropout High School Dropout

Author:Kamala Harris

“Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.”

Next Winning Sports Position Percent Shots Balls Golf Winner Eighty

Author:Ben Hogan

“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.”

Writing Has Beens Done Law Courses Share Amount Percent Extraordinary Accomplished Lions Frank Adopted Eighty Dodd Frank

Author:Mary Schapiro

“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.”

Men May Young Four Twenties Birthday Sixty Eighty Be Young Chuckles

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.”

People Problem Care Percent Twenties Don't Care Glad Confusion Frustration Problem Solving Eighty Gladness

Author:Lou Holtz

“At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!”

Men Years Real Age Born Birth Eighty

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.”

Hard Mother Memories Healing Careers Happened Baby Majors Motherhood Driving Eighty Reconciliation Having A Baby Reclamation

Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

“With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.”

People Looks Two Felt Sides Perfect Minutes Twenties Versions Apples Japan Sixty Seventies Eighty Cds Vinyl Twenty Two

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!”

Looks Sixty Eighty

Author:Dennis Hopper

“The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.”

Poor Company Rich Eras Assets Cash Eighty

Author:Nicola Horlick

“I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me”

Way Car Happenings Possession Things Happen My Way Illegal Riding Eighty Illegal Things

Author:Iggy Pop

“In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.”

Thinking Hard Certain Fun Clear Hard Work Amount Accepted Freak Now And Then Seventies Eighty Clear Thinking

Author:Grace Jones

“In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.”

People Men Years Persons Moving Three Accepting Alive Bears Twenties Sticks Committed Old Man Autonomy Eighty Sloth Tibetan I'm Alive

Author:Dalai Lama

“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.”

Long Wind Long Time Tests Fellows British Cents Eighty Examination

Author:Gary Player

“Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.”

People Reason Loses Percent Eighty Old Friends

Book:Conversations with Capote

Source: Conversations with Capote

“If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.”

Ifs Would Be Film Stuff Written Tvs Seventies Eighty Edgy

Author:Jonathan Banks

“We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?”

Want Years Kind Dies Causes Cities Streets Car Years Ago Horse Cancer Libertarian Nine Pollution Eighty Fever Ankles City Streets Old Car Typhoid

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“In 1910, eighty-two-year-old Leo Tolstoy flees from his wife and dies in a railway station of exposure.”

Years Two Dies Wife Two Years Stations Exposure Eighty Railway Two Year Olds Railway Station

Author:Jon Winokur

“Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.”

Used Pay Percent Prepared Be Prepared Eighty Cuisine

Author:George Carlin

“When [the] life span of America women is approaching eighty years having kids is not going to take it up.”

Years Kids America Eighty Having Kids Life Span

Author:Betty Friedan

“The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.”

Men Years Simple Moral Millions Middle Paper Pens Strokes Seventies Worthless Eighty Eighteen Printing Bankruptcy

Author:Frank Yerby

“I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!”

Years Real Jobs Father Causes Can Do My Own Cutting Dad Twenties My Dad Mexico Eighty Bucks Fourteen Liver Seventeen Drinkers Real Jobs Love My Dad I Love My Dad Drifters

Author:Christopher Titus

“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.”

“Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream.”

People Looks Real Dream Rooms Talking Destiny Laughing Four Thousand Eating Let Me Drinking Greek Sixty Powerless Eighty Tourists Real Power Sleepers Bombay

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”

War Enough Facts Interest Arms Needed Periods Army Institutions Slavery Unions Slave South Proof Saved Cents Eighty Laying Down

Book:Reminiscences of the Civil War

Source: Reminiscences of the Civil War

“The name came from, erm... us all just agreeing on a name that we liked. There was talk of Swans at first, but there was already a band called Swans, way back in the eighties. An American band. So we thought, well, we can't have them, and I think Andy said, "well what about Doves?" We ruminated it around the three of us and went, well, it's not so bad, it's all right.”

Thinking Way Firsts Wells Said Three Names Band Eighty Dove Swans

Author:Jimi Goodwin

“The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.”

People Film Felt Fiction Growing Up Environment Growing Late Science Fiction Aliens Affected Seventies Eighty Futuristic

Author:Duncan Jones

“The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us."”

People Thinking Country White Half Taken Written Percent Population Our Country Recognition Appeals Minorities Frightened Eighty

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.”

Different Bigs House Fans Rocks Hip Hop Rap Likes Hips Kicks Hops Eighty Techno Retro House Music Different Music

Author:Denzel Whitaker

“There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun of them, that you almost couldn't take them seriously from that point on. That's why only Westerns that had the stink of Watergate or Vietnam could be taken seriously. There were so few Westerns made since then, from the Eighties on, that the few directors who did were so pleased with themselves and so happy to have the opportunity that they got lost in visuals, they got lost in the vistas and the pretty scenery.”

Made Opportunity Lost Fun Hurt Taken Wonderful Directors Aspect Western Visuals Vietnam Seventies Eighty Scenery Stink Blazing Vistas Saddles Watergate

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.”

People Men Kind Action Film Growing Up Growing Blow Boring Good Times Our Actions Eighty Having A Good Time Steam Working Man Action Films

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.”

People Eye Kids Father Worry Five Raised Grandmother Sixty My Grandmother Eighty

Author:Grace Paley

“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.”

Enough Ability Building Percent Built Climbs Good Enough Ladders Eighty Showing Up Ladder Of Success

Author:Woody Allen

“Eighty percent of love is smell.”

Love Is Percent Smell Eighty

Author:Tom Robbins

“When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.”

Tree Humility Eighty Wildlife

Author:James Balog

“The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.”

Wings Excuse Meals Extras Eighty Buffalo Appetizers

Book:Food: A Love Story

Source: Food: A Love Story

“Eighty percent of global warming is the result of man's wrongful use of the resources of the planet and the dumping of millions upon millions of tons of nuclear and other waste in the world, creating great toxic areas all over our skies, our oceans, our rivers, and the earth.”

Men World Use Earth Results Millions Sky Planets Waste Ocean Creating Percent Resources Areas Rivers Nuclear Global Warming Toxic Eighty

Author:Benjamin Creme

“I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.”

Way Want Use Gone Mark Ghost Instance Quotations Eighty Back And Forth Quotation Marks

Author:Paul Auster

“Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated ranching town, eighty desolate miles from the nearest city, and back when there was much less cultural homogenisation by way of TV.”

Way Age Cities Tvs Towns Miles Isolated Naive Eighty Back When Immature Desolate Ranching

Author:Susan Schneider

“Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.”

Ends Bigs Lines Records Groups Rocks Bottom Pops Decades Queens Seventies Eighty Bottom Line Momentum Bucks Respectability

Author:Tony Visconti

“The eighties turned the whole system upside down. They would sign three groups and give them five or ten million dollars each to make three records. Out of those three records maybe one would be a hit. The economy changed, and that's why the music changed.”

Giving Whole Would Be Three Millions Economy Records Five Groups Changed Ten Dollars Eighty Million Dollars Upside Down

Author:Tony Visconti

“At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.”

Clubs Lust Eighty Getting Laid

Author:Patricia McConnell

“On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political becoming the personal in dramatic and irreparable ways. I remember the first time I went out into the desert, passing by all these mine fields and getting the history on them from my guide and realizing all these murderous mechanisms were real, were just sitting out there waiting for a victim, and some of them had been for sixty, seventy, eighty years.”

“Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how weird this world is.”

World Matter Kids This World Unique Who You Are Stranger Eight Eighty Just Kids

Author:Peter Orner

“Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.”

Novel Heard Percent Eighty

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine to heal people and see beauty within people.”

People Men Percent Medicine Seven Heal Forty Eighty Dissatisfied Beauty Within

Author:Jamel Shabazz

“When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school?”

Thinking Long States Philosophy School Four Ready Majors Long Time Universal University Eighty Long Time Ago Systematic Brooks

Author:Richard Meltzer

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