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“The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it's "important" that we reduce the influence of money. Yet 91 percent think it's "not likely" that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what's right to do yet don't think it can or will be done.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Important Done Influence Six Percent Ninety Most Encouraging

Author:Bill Moyers

“Ninety percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath, says God from the bowels of the subway. but we want magic, to win the lottery we never bought a ticket for.”

Want Winning Magic Percent Hot Tickets Ninety Baths Subway Lottery Bowels Hot Baths

Author:Mary Karr

“Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.”

Actors Percent Preparation Ninety

Author:William H. Macy

“Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.”

Ten Waste Percent Good Times Ninety Whiskey Whisky Drinking Whiskey Whiskey And Love

Author:Tug McGraw

“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”

World Love Firsts Country Play Reality Song Choices Music Lovers Percent Nine Ninety Ninety Nine Country Love Song Jukebox

Book:The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“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

“Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.”

Thinking Character Games Fun Percent Video Damn Annoying Ninety Annoyed

Author:Matthew Perry

“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

“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”

War Past Forget Percent Ninety Deficit Payment Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”

Motivational Half Percent Baseball Coaching Confusing Inspirational Sports Ninety Other Half Isms Famous Baseball Funny Baseball Baseball Life Baseball And Life Baseball Coach American Baseball

Author:Yogi Berra

“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”

People World Needs Watches Power Five Authority Percent Behave Ninety Authority And Power

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.”

People Loses Percent Gains Weight Ninety Lose Weight Very Sad

Author:Richard Simmons

“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Two Country Political Politics Work Honest Honesty Percent Adults Drinking Eight Libertarian Decent Libertarianism Ninety Publicity Hardworking Funny 4th Of July Ninety Eight

Author:Lily Tomlin

“I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.”

Way Trying Two Energy Greater Too Much Percent Eight Expensive Ninety Hustle Ninety Eight

Author:Orson Welles

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

People World Funny Society Danger Fool Percent Nine Insane Insanity Ninety Ninety Nine Contagion Insanity And Sanity

Author:Thornton Wilder

“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

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”

World War Happens Today Five Theory Pure Percent Invention Fake Boredom Ninety World Today Fireplaces

Book:The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

Source: The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

“Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.”

People Percent Gun Responsible Nine Owners Ninety Ninety Nine Gun Owners

Author:Jan Brewer

“Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender”

Percent Who You Are Invisible Ninety

Author:E. L. Konigsburg

“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”

People Mind Christian Church Christianity Atheism Goes On Percent Hundred Intelligent Atheist Connected Nine Sooner Or Later Bullshit Ninety Christian Church Ninety Nine

Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.”

People Life Five Percent Ninety Untrue People In Your Life Trueness Mistruths

Book:The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

“The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.”

Book Running Joy Song Study Theory Ten Kissing Laughter Jokes Percent Argument Sweat Cents Toil Ninety Exam Pints

Author:Siobhan Dowd

“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

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”

“Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.”

People Might Asks College Wall Percent Hung Ninety

Book:The Teeth Of The Tiger

Source: The Teeth Of The Tiger

“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.”

Littles Art Home Lost Percent Method Mad Dues Nine Income Ninety Rainy Rainy Day Ninety Nine Proverbial Lost Art

Author:George Washington Carver

“There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.”

Writing Mean Said Two Hard Inspiration Secret Magic Talent Hard Work Ten Percent Hundred Tired Bored Persistence Weary Ninety Fever

Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.”

People Law Given Band Music Is Percent Guitar Crap Ninety

Author:David Byrne

“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”

People Earth Three Can Do Walks Five Percent Saint Ninety

Author:Stephen King

“Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.”

Facts Knowing Magic Percent Extras Ninety Discworld

Author:Terry Pratchett

“To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.”

“Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.”

People Goes On Percent Eight Ninety Ninety Eight

Book:Lisey's Story: A Novel

Source: Lisey's Story: A Novel

“Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.”

Thinking World Guy Trouble This World Prove Percent Ninety

Book:Ever World: books I & II

Source: Ever World: books I & II

“Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.’ – Cherise”

Knowing Percent Shut Up Ninety

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“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)

“We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.”

Said Problem Percent Swings Ninety Swing Sets

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?" "Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks." "Ducks?”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“And spare me the jokes about scoring." "Dammit, woman, you read my mind," he said. "Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?" "It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time.”

Thinking Mind Said I Can Five Special Jokes Percent Dirty Spares Ninety Filthy Wordplay I Can Read Dirty Thoughts

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.”

Percent Errors Ninety

Author:Yogi Berra

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”

Trying Made Lying Humanity Mistake Percent Nine Fats Ashamed Ninety Humiliated Ninety Nine

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.”

Dream Percent Nine Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).”

“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

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”

“I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.”

People House Knowing Eating Percent Slavery Smell Drivers Truck Ninety Monotonous Hangover Waffles Open Road Truck Driver Monotonous Life

Author:J.A. Redmerski

“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

“Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.”

Fun Percent Angel Nine Ninety Ninety Nine

Book:The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

“And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart”

World Matter Fall Percent Nine Just Being What Matters Falling Apart Ninety Being There Ninety Nine Just Being There

Book:Counting by 7s

Source: Counting by 7s