“These things are happening in large measure because of us. We in this country burn 25 percent of the world's fossil fuel, create 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide. It is us - it is the affluent lifestyles that we lead that overwhelmingly contribute to this problem. And to call it a problem is to understate what it really is. Which is a crime. Crime against the poorest and most marginalized people on this planet. We've never figured out, though God knows we've tried, a more effective way to destroy their lives.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayCountryProblemCrimePlanetsHappeningsPercentLifestyleFuelGlobal WarmingCarbonFossilsGod KnowsPoorestFossil FuelCarbon DioxideMarginalizedAffluent Author:Bill McKibben
“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.” PeopleKnowsWayCertainActorsSidesWalksBehindsStrangeBalanceHappeningsPercentOppositesMarkCamerasProfoundLitBehind YouMovie Actors Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.” ThinkingWritingArtStoriesBeautifulEmotionalTenMusic IsHappeningsPercentThings HappenNineUnconsciousBeautiful ThingsNinetyNinety NineBest Art Author:T.C. Boyle
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt.” ThinkingKnowsGovernmentGrowthEconomyFiveEconomicHappeningsPercentSeventiesEconomic GrowthRoaring Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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.” IfsThinkingWantYearsKidsAmericaYoungStuffParentHappeningsPercentAdultsGood ThingsYoung AdultForty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.” YearsLooksMayEndsCountrySituationSeriousHappeningsPercentDollarsDebtNinePlusComing OutFourthUnemploymentDeficit Author:Allen West