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“We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.”

Needs Has Beens Country Energy Natural Quality Air Serious Demand Benefits Percent Plant Gas Natural Gas Power Plants Air Quality

Author:Gale Norton

“I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Giving Persons Real Character Elements Percent Deserve Trials Witness Real Person Give 100 Percent

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country.”

Ifs Needs Heart Country America Values Poor Struggle Rich Fine Messages Percent Concerned Safety Conservative Safety Net Conservative Values

Author:Mitt Romney

“It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.”

Needs Book Hard Easy Worry Written Percent Good Book Finishing Easy To Get Finishing It

Author:Laini Taylor

“I realized I need a certain kind of chemistry and a certain kind of look to be into someone, and like 1 percent of the population has it.”

Needs Looks Kind Certain Percent Population I Realized Chemistry

Author:Jen Kirkman

“We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.”

Needs Two Walks Months Walking Ten Percent Significant Typical Bike Two Days Significant Change Changes In Society

Author:Jeff Olson

“The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.”

“The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.”

People Needs Years May States Lasts America Poor Conditions Majors Percent Built Rivers Killing Bridges Engineers Truck 1960s Vintage American Society Minnesota Civil Engineer Washington State

Author:Ed Rendell

“To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.”

Ifs Needs Conditions Objects Wind Cost Percent Gun Europe Fruit Western Rate Arguing Bunch Combat Tanks Grapes Pentagon Rigor Purchasing Tactical Western Europe

Author:Dave Barry

“Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.”

Needs Asks Interest Views Percent Currents Alternatives Therapy Abandoned Fewer Physicians Status Quo Personal Views

Author:David Eisenberg

“Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.”

“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.”

Needs War Motivational Earth Energy Wealth Effort Poverty Five Greater Laughter Percent Destruction Servant Seventies

Author:Rajneesh

“Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007 - and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.”

Needs States Bigs Three Example Wind Months Demand Percent Plant Nuclear Cells Combat Coal Utility Integrated Supplies Variables Backup Supply And Demand Nuclear Plants Solar Cells

Author:Amory Lovins

“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.”

“Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.”

Needs Facts Conditions Percent Sitting Safety Train Speed Enormous Worthwhile Efficient Urban Requirements Doing Nothing Automobile Sitting Around Gasoline High Speed Tweak

Author:William J. Mitchell

“When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.”

People Needs Attitude Support Percent Notion Google Civics Cocky

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“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

“I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.”

Want Needs Firsts Parent Generations Percent Scientist Planes Atmosphere Fuel Efficient Airplane Engineers Mars Flew Scientists And Engineers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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 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 White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.”

Needs Past House Sports President White Week Economic Policy Activity Percent Thanks White House President Obama Leisure Over The Past Economic Policy Leisure Time

Author:Jay Leno

“Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often seeks to satisfy his perceived and ultimately false psychological needs, such as his need for self-display, luxuries and the like. Twenty percent of humanity consumes eighty percent of the world's wealth and is accountable for an equal percentage of the world's ecological catastrophes.”

“I think we need to lift our spirits and have high, lofty expectations for this great country of ours.The new normal of two percent [growth] that the left is saying you can't do anything about is so dangerous for our country.”

Thinking Needs Two Country Spirit Left Growth Dangerous Normal Expectations Percent Our Country Lifts Lofty Great Country New Normal

Author:Jeb Bush

“Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.”

People Needs Company Focus Products Offers Percent Average Clever Advertising Mediocre Taglines

Author:Brian Tracy

“Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for clothing. What would it mean if we all consumed 20 percent less? It would be catastrophic. It would mean 20 percent less jobs, 20 percent less taxes, 20 percent less money for schools, doctors, roads. The global economy would collapse.”

Ifs Needs Mean Doe Would Be School Jobs Economy Taxes Percent Doctors Everyday Nine Clothings Collapse Ninety Consumed Global Economy Ninety Nine Hairdresser Everyday Things

Author:Karl-Johan Persson

“A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.”

Way Needs Body Girl Realizing Fine Conversation Percent Bigger Size Teeth Noses Muscles Accents Positively

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.”

Way Needs Two Light Energy Rich Doors Huge Amount Percent Raises Leaving Enormous Two Ways Refrigerators

Author:Bill Nye

“We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Values Compassion Dangerous Percent Generosity Ashamed Torches Need A Change Value Systems

Author:Patch Adams

“All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!”

Men Needs Feels Book Able Reader Elements Comfortable Percent Discussing Procreation

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him.”

Thinking Needs Kind School Guy Stuff Half Opinion Laughing Minutes Information Ten Percent High School Access Bars Dumb Idiot Make Sense Loud Realising Dumb Guy Informed Opinions

Author:Bill Burr

“In almost any change there is 20 - 60 - 20. 20% are doing the change and we need to stay out of their way. 20% will never get there (a large percent still go into banks to see tellers vs. ATMs). 60% are in the middle. I think you will always find some companies where the head of HR is not a member of senior management team (bottom 20% and some companies where she or he has always been (top 20%).”

Thinking Way Needs Stills Company Team Middle Members Percent Management Bottom Senior Atm Senior Management

Author:Dave Ulrich

“3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.”

People Knows Needs Should Done Helping Eye Care Forget Teach Five Directors Six Approach Percent Cameras Sake Careful Consideration Lenses Collaborators

Author:Steven Spielberg

“You need to know everything and feel 100 percent safe so that you can live and breathe in a role and so that you feel comfortable taking risks and trying new things and being bold. If you don't feel comfortable, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Wells Kind Roles Environment Risk Safe Comfortable Percent Breathe New Things Scenarios Taking Risks Trying New Things

Author:Nina Dobrev

“Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away-that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project-you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.”

World Want Needs Attention Support Projects Percent Committed Conviction Missions Obsessed Going Away Persist Support You

Author:Grant Cardone

“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.”

World Needs Helping Jobs America Goal Class Environment Five Middle Taxes Highest Percent Workers Rate Corporate Thirty Middle Class American Business

Author:Lindsey Graham

“Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.”

Ifs Needs Enough Facts Grows Growth Focus Percent Aspect India Ships Chinese Indian Goods Manufacturing Delivery

Author:Arjuna Mahendran

“Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.”

Needs Middle Percent

Author:Jack Welch

“The past three years have seen a threefold increase in the number of participants of the state guarantee system. It has already exceeded 21 percent, and the trend will continue. We need a national rather than a government program of state guarantees”

Needs Years States Government Past Three Numbers Percent Program Increase Guarantees Trends Three Years Participants Government Programs

Author:Veronika Skvortsova

“I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give people a sense of the place and setting. It's a field you still need. At first it was a lot of fun, and then later it became a little bit intimidating. "Oh my God, I've got so much footage. Where am I going to put it? What am I going to do?" I ended up really only reviewing about 20 to 30 percent of what I had. So it was a task.”

People Needs Giving Firsts Littles Stills War Use Found Fun Stuff Bits Goal Fields Cold Little Bit Percent Tasks Setting Settings Cold War Intimidating

Author:Gabe Polsky

“The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his dietary protein needs, 12 percent of the carbohydrates, 9 percent of essential phosphorus, 7 percent of his riboflavin, and 5 percent of niacin. Should he go on to immoderate beer drinking, he becomes a walking vitamin pill.”

Source: The Joy of Drinking

“The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news.”

Needs Firsts Products Revolution Creating News Percent Spread Evangelists

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I really need to borrow, I have this emergency money that I can get, but for now there is no reason for me to keep cash at zero percent interest rate and at the same time, pay all of this money out. So, I think people need to figure out quickly how to pay loans and how much cash they should really keep.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Should Firsts Looks I Can Reason Interest Pay Figures Percent Okay Rate Credit Cards No Reason Zero Cash Emergencies Loan Credit Card Interest Rate

Author:Dan Ariely

“What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent. It means that billionaires can't make unlimited campaign contributions and buy and sell politicians. It means that the U.S. government represents the needs of all the people, not just the 1 percent and their lobbyists.”

“By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.”

People Needs Firsts School Jobs Young Ready Percent High School Workers Graduates Graduating High School

Author:Bill Gates

“We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.”

Way Needs Giving Government Running Used Cities New York Taxes Percent Concepts Responsible Raises Financial Solve New York City Application Sanity Revenue Sales Tax

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“I didn't know the Bible said anything about money. Twenty percent of what Christ talked about was money. You think about it - so does God. Think you need it - God knows it. ... The principles of Jesus Christ create your prosperity.”

Thinking Knows Needs Doe Said Jesus Christ Principles Percent Jesus Christ Twenties Prosperity God Knows

Author:Mike Murdock

“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?”

“There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.”

Ifs Needs Giving Energy Attention Percent Guarantees Get Back Sure Thing Give 100 Percent Guarantees In Life

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.”

Want Needs Use Seems Stuff Novel Five Percent Stealing Appropriate Ninety

Author:Paul Auster

“We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.”

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