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“Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.”

Company Products Percent Twenties Customers Advertising Brands Thirty Acquire Forty Revenue Exposure

Author:Bill Wyman

“Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.”

Want Six Percent Forty Currency Workplace Flexibility Small Business Women Want

Author:Celinda Lake

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.”

Ifs May Enjoy Sides Five Percent Rivers Climate Circles Holes Ice Atmosphere Charm Chairs Zone Fishing Forty Fascination Distinctive Arctic Mosquitoes Squat Enjoy Yourself Windsor

Book:West African Studies

Source: West African Studies

“Every morning I'd have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.”

Art Ideas Turns House Morning Wife Percent Concepts Finals My Wife Finished Stores Coffee Forty Sixty Every Morning Cleaning Correcting Cleaning Up

Author:Mike Royer

“Forty percent of my ideas came from my wife.”

Ideas Wife Percent My Wife Forty

Author:Mike Royer

“Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?”

Knows Used Percent Forty Did You Know

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.”

Men Fighting Company Battle Percent Sick Rate Opening Forty Men Women

Author:Faith Popcorn

“We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?”

People Knows Said Country Millions Percent Our Country Forty Visa

Author:Rand Paul

“Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.”

Thinking Believe Real Five Percent Evidence Angel Forty Seventies Dna Unreliable Dna Evidence

Author:Richard Jeni

“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.”

Believe States President Born United United States Four Citizens Republican Percent Barack Forty Voters Presidency President Barack Obama Unconstitutional

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“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

“The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave.”

People Law Percent Crosses Currents Immigration Administration Barack Borders Forty Illegal Exit Entry Illegal Immigration Visa Biometrics

Author:Ted Cruz

“The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for most of the last 3 million years, is disappearing before our eyes. Forty percent is already gone. The rest is expected to go completely within the next decade. What do they think is causing this?”

Thinking Years Has Beens Eye Lasts Next Millions Gone Air Percent Disappear Expected Decades Global Warming Forty Persist Unreality Already Gone

Author:Al Gore

“Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.”

People Body Percent Illness Treated Mental Illness Forty Physical Body

Author:Linda Hamilton

“If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.”

“I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.”

Thinking College Percent Population Forty Harvard Frost College Education Gertrude

Author:Robert Hass

“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.”

People Ifs Men Years Country Three Courses Black Teaching Century Produce Percent Thirds Caught Fifty Grades Forty Black People Three Years 19th Century Signatures Third Grade Penmanship

Author:Robert Hass

“Almost 40% of all young adults are living with their parents. This is a 75-year high in America. Forty percent of young adults are living with their parents. I see stuff like this, and I think it's a good thing I didn't become a parent, because if that were happening to me, you wouldn't want to be my kid.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Kids America Young Stuff Parent Happenings Percent Adults Good Things Young Adult Forty

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.”

People Ifs Knows Crazy Behavior Percent Boring Thirty Forty Studious

Author:Irvine Welsh

“In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.”

Choices Loses Plans Percent Advantage Seven Forty Senior Obamacare Medicare Pennsylvania

Author:Paul Ryan

“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.”

Way Looks Reason Today Used Feminism Hair Exercise Percent Reason Why Fifty Forty Los Angeles Gray Sixty Manhattan American Woman Hair Dye

Author:Nora Ephron

“I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half.”

Said Voice Half Five Fine Needed Bed Percent Okay Thirds Silent Phones Wide Partners Rings Former Awake Thirty Sat Forty Hung Gigs Hints Hardened Wide Awake Guilds

Author:Ilona Andrews