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“I do not think there is such a thing as a "clash of civilizations." When I say that Muslims as Muslims cannot be represented in the West, I was being ironic, and also referring to the fact that ninety percent of the time when people talk about "the problem of Muslims" in the West, it is to complain about the fact that Muslims have not "integrated."”

People Thinking Facts Problem Civilization Percent West Complaining Ironic Ninety Clash Integrated Referring Clash Of Civilizations

Author:Talal Asad

“Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.”

Art Ends Pieces Percent Crafts Carrie Ninety

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.”

Knows World Problem Used Purpose Air Travel Percent Eight Oil Fuel Broads Vehicle Funny Travel Highways Truck Ninety Air Travel Ninety Eight

Author:John Olver

“The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.”

Bigs Five Player Percent Entertaining Big Things Ninety Hardcore

Author:Will Wright

“In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and being on top is the same story as the moth being drawn to the flame. The flame and it's attractiveness is something you'll never eliminate. Some will learn how to live in that environment and others will burn in it.”

Trying Stories Dream Environment Ten Percent Hollywood Flames Ninety Elusive Moths Attractiveness

Author:Conrad Hall

“Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.”

Character Percent Nine Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.”

Men Way Country Running Guy Suffering Dies White Poor Pay Cities Economy Percent Areas Fortune Seven Our Country Ceo White Man Ninety Lending Predatory

Author:Ralph Nader

“Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.”

Want Use Government Age Church Practice Percent Catholic Eight Consistent Federal Government Ninety Contraception Childbearing Ninety Eight Private Insurance

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.”

Government One Thing Broken Percent Agree Ninety Money In Politics

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“It is a measure of the arrogance of nations - but especially of the nuclear-weapon states - to assert that a nuclear-weapons-free world is impossible when, in fact, ninety-five percent of the nations of the world already are nuclear free.”

World States Facts Nations Five Impossible Weapons Percent Nuclear Arrogance Nuclear Weapons Ninety Free World

Author:George Lee Butler

“Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but no one eats tofu like steak eaters, by a long shot. It's also funny that tofu is held up as what a vegetarian eats. I mean maybe I eat tofu once a month, but other than that, never. All of it, statistically speaking, is going to livestock.”

People Mean Long Fun Months Percent Shots Raised Eight Vegetarian Ninety Steak Livestock Tofu Soy Long Shots Ninety Eight

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.”

“I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.”

Want Law Company Return Percent Eight Ninety Ukraine Ukrainian Privatization Ninety Eight

Author:Viktor Yushchenko

“Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.”

Listening Singing Percent Hearing Nine Ninety Ninety Nine Listening And Hearing

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Humans Has Beens Said Half Percent Something New Ninety Human History New You

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated; they simply quit. ... As you face bad experiences, it's important for you to remember that you can rarely see the benefits while you're in the midst of them. You usually gain perspective on the other side of it.”

Important Remember Faces Sides Failing Perspective Benefits Percent Gains Quitting Midst Defeated Ninety Bad Experiences

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.”

Fans Percent Chicago Scar Ninety Tissues Cubs Scar Tissue Chicago Cubs

Author:George Will

“Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”

Love Is Percent Ears Burning Ninety Embarrassment True Love Is

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.”

Games Half Percent Baseball Ninety

Author:Yogi Berra

“Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.”

Turns Ten Percent Ninety

Author:Saint Augustine

“Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.”

Five Percent Including Statistics Ninety

Author:Keith Waterhouse

“Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.”

Thinking Knows Doe Has Beens Chance Ready Ten Judgment Percent Likes Senators Ninety Not Ready Mccain

Author:Barack Obama

“Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.”

Percent Ninety Best Work

Author:Robert McKee

“Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.”

Culture Percent Expected Nine Where You Are Ninety Urgent Burnout Ninety Nine

Author:Arianna Huffington

“It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.”

“Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.”

Ifs Might Causes Design Percent Green Moved Shirts Ninety Purple Seizures Unsuspecting

Author:Lewis Black

“At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.”

Ends Creativity Photography Percent Connections Nine The End Of The Day Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Rankin

“Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.”

Way Ideas Night Sleep Middle Losing Percent Nine Dawn Good Ideas Ninety Discomfort Middle Of The Night Ninety Nine Nagging Tiredness

Author:Peter Menzel

“Ninety percent of the day is working out. Sometimes I get my nails done and go to the grocery store.”

Sometimes Done Percent Work Out Stores Nails Ninety Groceries Grocery Stores Nails Done

Author:Lindsey Vonn

“Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.”

Film Audience Percent Built Screens Mediocre Ninety

Author:George Clooney

“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

“At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.”

World Moments Moving Example Ten Percent Around The World Servant Related Goods Rulers Chasing Ninety Goods And Services Chasing Money

Author:Satish Kumar

“The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction, where climate change caused in part by mega-volcanic eruptions wiped out ninety-five percent of life on Earth. It took about ten or twenty million years for the planet's ecosystems to stabilize. During that time you saw a lot of weird, out-of-balance ecosystems where, for example, crocodile-like predators ripped the crap out of each other along the coasts.”

“I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.”

Thinking Want Feels Looks Made Action Three Too Much Percent Shoulders Preparation Consideration Ninety

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“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.”

Thinking Writing Art Stories Beautiful Emotional Ten Music Is Happenings Percent Things Happen Nine Unconscious Beautiful Things Ninety Ninety Nine Best Art

Author:T.C. Boyle

“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.”

People Ifs Use Black Community Numbers Policy Color Higher Drug Lows Percent Resources Rate Population Cracks Black People Ninety Arrested Cocaine

Author:Carl Hart

“The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.”

Water Sacrifice Percent Entertainment Nine Rejection Toil Ninety Ninety Nine Iceberg Entertainment Business

Author:Jonathan Tucker

“My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.”

Son Percent Nine My Son Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Casey Neistat

“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.”

Ifs Has Beens Art Body Able Risk Ten Comfortable Percent Organization Profit Operations Grants Pens Ninety Translations Salary Funding Niche Specialists

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy getting it. I love it where you just get to go nuts. Ninety percent of what you hear, he wrote. There's ten percent that he let me play around with in the studio and actually put in the script if it was funny enough.”

Ifs Enough Play Enjoy Ten Percent Let Me Folks Scripts Studios Nuts Ninety Rice Chad

Author:James Monroe Iglehart

“Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.”

Building Percent Architecture Ninety

Author:Frank Gehry

“Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.”

Littles Fantasy Comedy Adventure Right Now Percent Pencils Ninety Skirts Subway Hurrying New Adventure Hankering

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.”

Mean Enough Gone Five Percent Negative Twenties Blue Workers Bottom Population Nine Wages Ninety Twenty Five Collars Ninety Nine Blue Collar Net Worth Blue Collar Workers

Author:Michael Hudson

“Ninety percent of my thoughts are, "How will this work on the radio?"”

Percent Radio My Thoughts Ninety

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.”

People Thinking School Percent Library Bridges Highways Ninety Inadequate Crumbling

Author:Ralph Nader

“We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it is the greatest danger true religious experience has ever been confronted with.”

People Today America Religious Danger Percent Ninety Renaissance Religious Experience

Author:Erich Fromm

“Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.”

Persons Percent Islam Fabric Ninety Eighty

Author:Rakim

“In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.”

Ifs Knows Needs Problem Cases Know How Percent Nine Frustration Ninety Eighty Ninety Nine

Author:Gaspar Noe

“Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?”

Giving Littles Dark Percent Why Not Jail Prisoner Ninety Levity Dark Life

Author:Jeff Ross

“Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.”

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