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“When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.”

“Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.”

“I think everything happens for a reason. With my game being the way it is, if I did shoot 80 percent, I'd be a harder person to deal with. It just keeps me humble. Just imagine me in my game shooting the same percentage that Reggie Miller shoots. I wouldn't even talk to you guys because I wouldn't have to.”

“Israel is doing what any other country would do, and certainly the U.S. would do. If 80 percent of your population were under fire and you had 60 seconds or 90 seconds to get into bomb shelters, if terror tunnels were dug underneath your border in order to come in and explode your kindergartens and massacre your people and kidnap American citizens.”

People Ifs Country Order Fire Citizens Percent Population Terror Israel Borders Bombs Seconds Shelter Other Countries Tunnels American Citizens Kindergarten Massacres Bomb Shelters

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“The dynamic is unmistakable: fixed lines for phones have been declining at a three-percent rate for the last several years, while the number of Americans opting for cell phone calling keeps increasing. If you are a fixed line provider this trend means trouble. Many of the fixed mobile convergence strategies under consideration end up utilizing a smart phone or dual-mode VoWLAN/Cellular phone that works like a landline phone in the local area and then converts to cell phone calling.”

“Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.”

Ifs Happened Taste Intellectual Percent Difficulty Ninety Intellectual Life

Author:Terence McKenna

“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.”

“Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.”

Ifs Gone Comedy Percent Okay

Author:Joan Rivers

“When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it's time for you to leave because you'll end up getting hurt - I want to be able to walk away on top.”

Ifs Want Giving Littles Ends Able Bits Loses Hurt Walks Fire Little Bit Percent Nfl Rice Getting Hurt Give 100 Percent

Author:Jerry Rice

“The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read the stories on my site that are based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida and I only lived there for a year.”

Ifs Years Stories Felt Crazy Months Couple Percent Florida Shocking Unbelievable Hooked Crazy Women

Author:Tucker Max

“It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.”

Ifs Use Turns Percent Stores Shopping Knitting Discounts Yarn

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“The most important thing, of course, is that you should look more stunning than you have ever looked in your life. How many excuses do you have to wear a dress bigger than anyone else's, at a party just for you, where everyone has to burst into tears from how gorgeous you look while you prance around in front of them? Remember, your lifelong happiness depends on this one article of clothing. If it doesn't look good, you're not a bride. You're just some idiot in a big white thing - a color unflattering to about 93 percent of the population.”

“If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.”

Ifs Children Chance Involved Percent Addiction Get Involved Sibling Older Sibling

Author:Virgil Miller Newton

“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

“When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.”

People Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Stills Different War Film Fall Sex Industry Percent Okay Gender Bother Filmmaker Cracks Ninety Sex And Gender

Author:Signe Baumane

“If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.”

People Ifs Would Be America House President Gone Influence Percent Contribution Senate

Author:Brian Williams

“The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Mother Responsibility Taught Like You Percent Faults

Author:Byron Katie

“I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Together Hours Percent Cameras Lazy Tonight Heels Bras I Am Pretty Get It Together

Author:Amy Schumer

“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”

Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.”

Ifs Giving Reality Young Actors Results Advice Percent Scripts Auditions Scrap Young Actors

Author:Wallace Shawn

“If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Feels Years Looks Made Age Film Guy Becoming Giving Up Percent Graves Coming Of Age Admitting Becoming A Man

Author:Kevin Bacon

“It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it.”

Ifs Want Looks Gone Internet Percent Radio Available Piracy

Author:Neil Young

“A Newsweek poll said if the election were held today, John Kerry would beat Bush 49 percent to 46 percent. And today, President Bush called Newsweek magazine a threat to world peace.”

Ifs World Said Today President Beats Percent Election Threat Magazines Polls President Bush John Kerry

Author:Jay Leno

“I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there.Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”

People Ifs Looks Made Ideas Moments Would Be Girl Term Decision Accepting Personality Easier Lucky Letting Go Percent Decided Lifetime Currency

Author:Amy Poehler

“No [I'm not a feminist] because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men away from the power' is never going to work out because you need balance. With myself, I'm very in touch with my masculine side. And I'm 50 percent feminine and 50 percent masculine, same as I think a lot of us are. And I think that is important to note. And also I think that if men went down and women rose to power, that wouldn't work either. We have to have a fine balance.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Important Ideas Sides He Man Fine Balance Percent Down And Raises Rose Notes Feminist Work Out Feminine Going To Work Masculine

Author:Shailene Woodley

“If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.”

Ifs House Amount Percent

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.”

Ifs Ends States Sides Effort Accepting Steps Serious Percent Independent Terror Israel Terrorism Ministers Prime Palestinian Prime Minister

Author:Ariel Sharon

“Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.”

People Ifs Enough Three Voice Realizing Lines Laughing Jokes Percent Nine Pounds Say Anything Three Times Ninety Making People Laugh Delivery Cocky Ninety Nine

Author:Buddy Hackett

“If you want an abortion you go to Planned Parenthood and that’s well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.”

Ifs Want Wells Doe Percent Abortion Parenthood Planned Parenthood Blood Pressure Cholesterol

Author:Jon Kyl

“You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.”

Ifs Knows Wells Three Majors Percent Hospitals Complication

Author:Atul Gawande

“People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers at the top of (those) industries, they don't vary very much. I think in finance, women hold 19 percent of the top jobs, and women are 21 percent of the leaders in nonprofits.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Jobs Certain Culture Numbers Leader Streets Wall Industry Percent Assuming Gender Finance Vary Nonprofits

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.”

Ifs Wells Persons Self Chance Successful One Thing Percent Okay Being Successful Self Destruct Talented Person

Author:Ethan Hawke

“If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.”

Ifs Thinking Made Two Bigs Film Generations Percent Hollywood Worthy Percentages

Author:Murray Horwitz

“Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.”

Ifs Art Would Be Games Loses Design Percent Advantage Programming Lots Of Money Consistently Consistency Ninety Profitable Competitive Advantage

Author:Gabe Newell

“If you play football, theres going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.”

Ifs Trying I Can Play Helping Can Do Focus Team Football Percent Rate Bother Injury Bothering You

Author:Larry Fitzgerald

“The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.”

People Ifs Ends Turns Stuff Share Huge Internet Percent Entertainment Streams Ads More Money Traffic Revenue

Author:Kim Dotcom

“No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.”

Ifs Giving Humans Ideas Form Return Percent Profitable Dividends

Author:Napoleon Hill

“One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.”

People Ifs Knows Mean I Can Voice Doubt Percent Hundred

Author:Sam Smith

“I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.”

Ifs Thinking Winning Figures Percent Making Money Consistently Banking Traders

Author:Bill Lipschutz

“If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.”

Ifs Way Kind Happens Born Information Identity Birth Percent Stealing

Author:Frank Abagnale

“Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.”

Ifs Art Country Christian Culture Influence Media Fields Percent Population Entertainment Believer Assumption Publishing Academia Forging

Author:Timothy Keller

“Right now, we continue to see demand at very strong levels. It's tough to find a Wii now. If we hit 100 stores in the area, we would find Wiis in only 20 percent of them today. That tremendous strength we had in December really wiped the pipeline clean. Our pipeline, the retailer pipeline. And so with that kind of demand, it doesn't suggest the need for any pricing actions.”

Ifs Needs Kind Today Action Strong Levels Right Now Demand Percent Tough Areas Clean Stores Very Strong December Pipeline Pricing Retailers Wii

Author:Cammie Dunaway

“If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year. [...] And when somebody makes it very easy for you to do it by saying you don't really have to put up my money, you can lie about your income a little, or we'll give you 100 percent mortgage, you're going to do it, because everybody that's done it has been proven right. You have what they call social tools, and, you know, you're going to feel like an idiot if you didn't do it, because the house cost more.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Feels Years Littles Has Beens Done Lying Next House Social Easy Cost Percent Tools Income Idiot Proven Next Year Mortgage House Prices

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.”

“If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.”

Ifs Humans Groups Percent Relation Managers Human Relations

Author:Peter Drucker

“If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.”

Ifs Needs Guy Hair Genius Percent Advantage Okay Nine Dozen Auditions Gorgeous Dimes Goofy Bad Hair

Author:Tom Hanks

“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”

Ifs Trying May Children Doe Stills Kids Mother Father Watches Acceptance Tvs Six News Percent Clock Ninety Liable

Author:Bill Cosby

“If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position.”

Ifs Cutting Position Percent

Author:David Ryan

“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Different America Success Interesting College Succeed Percent Aging Keep Going Puzzles Eighty

Author:Gertrude Stein

“I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever they wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up.”

Ifs Thinking Men Country Body Wanted America Guy Girl Bed Beats Percent Men And Women Afternoon License Posters Legendary Rave Fave

Author:Lester Bangs

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