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“If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.”

Ifs Children Energy Acting Percent Actresses Investigation Distracted

Author:Jessica Lange

“I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.”

Ifs Years School Careers Mom Percent Work Out My Mom

Author:Queen Latifah

“I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.”

People Ifs Knows Mind War States Helping United Pay United States Taxes Percent Income

Author:Roseanne Barr

“If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.”

Ifs Children Asks Parent Percent Autism Versus Measles Children With Autism

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.”

Ifs Done Guy Names Simple Percent Checks Attractive Really Cool Primal

Author:Danica McKellar

“All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That's why it's important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a 'power' breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.”

Ifs Important Can Do Differences Responsibility Dog Ready Percent Hundred Damage Aggressive Bulls Pits Shepherds Chihuahua Pit Bull Rottweilers German Shepherds

Author:Cesar Millan

“Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'”

Ifs Giving Should Said Stills Would Be Answers Inspiring Talent Giving Up Ambition Percent Hundred Hollywood Experts Fifty

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.”

People Ifs America Desire Animal Numbers Five Impossible Bird Percent Raises Raised Range Meat Eggs Farms Milk Factories Sheer Ninety Humane

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.”

Ifs Has Beens States Moving Chance United Numbers United States Higher Percent Adults Mexico Surveys

Author:Conan O'Brien

“And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.”

Ifs Way Years Made Important Care Goal Term Levels Progress Huge Cost Percent Important Things Health Care Inflation Deficit Reducing Health Care Costs

Author:Barack Obama

“Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.”

Ifs Want Sports Decision Careers Percent Stones Athlete Preparation Crucial Olympic Athlete

Author:Apolo Ohno

“Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.”

Ifs Years Shows Film Actors Successful Tvs Percent Profession Chosen Tv Shows Things You Love

Author:Christina Ricci

“Tell me if this is wrong. Justin Bieber … is 100 percent like watching Vanilla Ice all over again. It's exactly the same. Well, as soon as Bieber has a hit, he'll be like Vanilla Ice.”

Ifs Wells Percent Ice Justin Vanilla

Author:Kid Rock

“Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.”

People Ifs Knows Years Looks Said I Can Turns Three President Term Results Economy Week Months Percent Years Ago President Obama Three Years Unemployment Propositions

Author:Mitt Romney

“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”

People Ifs Inspirational Inspiration Percent Ethics Treats Thrive Ninety Ninety Nine Inspirational Presidential Inspiring Presidential Treat Me Right

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.”

People Ifs Years Firsts Looks Said Stills Facts Problem Government Next Percent Solve Debt Next Year Pennies

Author:Marco Rubio

“A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.”

Ifs Mean Percent Scripts Horrible Odds Good Movie

Author:Ricky Schroder

“You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.”

People Ifs World Want Percent Stability Starving Dieting

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.”

Ifs Knows Stills Bigs Loses Numbers Audience Tvs Percent Wine Library

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Believe America Opportunity I Believe Grows Growing Up Land Military Percent Don't Believe Population Sixteen Rural America

Author:Tom Vilsack

“Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Hands Would Be Three Five Four Risk Security Percent Fairs Folks Spending Touched Immigrants Imports Food Security

Author:Tom Vilsack

“I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.”

Ifs Has Beens Running Black White Comfortable Percent Congressman

Author:Andrew Young

“People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.”

People Ifs Shows Jobs Community Internet Percent Shots Appreciate Series Breathing Episodes Ninety

Author:Felicia Day

“Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.”

Ifs Running Accepting Rich Percent Entrepreneur Expected Partners Venture Get Rich New Ventures

Book:The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money

Source: The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money

“I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.”

Ifs Watches Tvs Percent My Time More Time Watching Tv

Author:Luis von Ahn

“What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?”

Ifs World Action Poor Moral Protect Percent Budgets Fifty What If

Author:Anne Lamott

“And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”

Ifs Thinking Men Ideas Humanity Easy Ability Watches Five Honest Integrity Picks Percent Neighbor Pockets Ninety Fountainhead Upright Man

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Two Different Whole One Thing Missing Percent Balls Entity Fingernails

Book:My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”

“If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.”

Ifs Looks Moments Might Faces Laughing Survival Percent Hundred Rate Enjoyed Merit Statistics Cracks Meaningless Fatality Saffron

Author:Jasper Fforde

“If by 'miracle kids' you mean innocent test-tube babies whose DNA was forcibly unraveled and merged with two percent avian genes, yeah, I guess that would be us," I said. "Because it's a miracle that we're not complete nut jobs and mutant disasters.”

Ifs Mean Said Two Would Be Kids Jobs Baby Percent Tests Miracle Yeah Disaster Innocent Nuts Genes Dna Tubes Mutants

Author:James Patterson

“You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Enough Funny Games Left Sports Half Percent Give 100 Percent

Author:Yogi Berra

“I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.”

People Ifs Looks Children Hard Reason Today Earth Night Certain Born Too Much Baby Birth Drink Thousand Percent Hundred Accidents Aliens Flattering Birth Control

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homocide victims were killed by husbands or lovers. Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble.”

Ifs Thinking Men Enough Risk Huge Lovers Husband Percent Female Twenties Victim Eight Gamble Being A Woman

Book:Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me

Source: Welcome to Temptation/Bet Me

“When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.”

Ifs Wells Important Different Enough Stories Bits Black White Poor Cities College Drug Lucky Percent Drinking University Fake Get Away Illegal Misfortunes New Orleans Dorms

Author:Tim Wise

“The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.”

Ifs Persons Important Reality Percent Hundred Lonely Remembered Good Day Bad Day Important Person Most Important Person

Author:Kami Garcia

“If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.”

People Ifs Jobs Our Lives Percent Worried Last Lecture

Book:The last lecture

Source: The last lecture

“Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?”

Source: Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)

“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.”

Ifs Littles Book Age Week Percent Starting Print

Author:Lewis Buzbee

“If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.”

Ifs Giving Shows Running Opportunity Dog Percent Following

Book:Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

Ifs Knows Book Week Thousand Percent Lifetime Library Tricks Our Time

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.”

Ifs Use Felt Objects Bed Percent Hundred Sick Edges Legs Ridiculous Hung Unimportant Over The Edge

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.”

Ifs Inspiration Lying Culture Genius Percent Nine Persistence Flash Ninety Glamorous Great Power Ninety Nine Dazzle Perspiration

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".”

Source: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves

“Kylie stormed into Holiday's office. She dropped down into the seat across from the desk and looked her friend and camp leader right in the eyes. "I hate boys. I'm seriously considering going lesbian." Holiday's expression was part grin, part groan. "If it was that easy, ninety percent of the women in the world would be gay." She made a funny little face and then asked, "So...boy problems?”

Ifs World Littles Made Problem Would Be Eye Faces Hate Easy Leader Boys Expression Gay Office Percent I Hate Seats Holiday Camps Desks Considering Ninety

Author:C.C. Hunter

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