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“What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.”

People Knows Laughing Couple Percent Population Ems Southern Good People Funny Things Things I Love Make Me Laugh

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“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

“People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.”

People Hours Week Percent

Author:Warren Farrell

“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.”

“I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.”

People Hands Song Wonder Hell Records Percent Prison Guitar Legs Melody

Author:Ronnie Radke

“What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, "tenth." For some people, that's extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.”

People Giving Should Mean Percent Uncomfortable Percentages Tithe Colonoscopy

Author:Andy Stanley

“I never tried to write for other people. I liked people who had problems I might have, because we all have insecurities, regrets. I like heroes who were not 100-percent perfect, who things to take care of.”

People Writing Problem Might Care Perfect Regret Hero Percent Take Care Insecurity

Author:Stan Lee

“one hundred percent of the bishops who oppose the repeal of anti-abortion laws are men and one hundred percent of the people who have abortions are women.”

People Men Law Percent Hundred Abortion Bishops Anti Abortion Abortion Laws

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.”

“Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question – but think of it this way: Every other anti-poverty program that’s been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent... Why shouldn’t we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders – capitalism?”

People Thinking Way Should Might Pay Wonder Poverty Percent Capitalism Built Fairs Program Strategy Rate Experiments Proven

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.”

People Ends Three Goal Percent Cents

Author:Shiv Khera

“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

“I was always at about 70/30. About 70 percent of the people of my district appreciated me, and about 30 percent had quite another view of me.”

People Views Percent Appreciated

Author:George W. Bush

“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

“Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.”

People Common Nice Groups Percent Raised Polite Ninety

Author:Susan RoAne

“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

“When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.”

People World Feels Persons Important Care Planets Like You Truth Is Percent Billions Important Person Most Important Person Could Care Less

Author:Jonah Hill

“What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.”

People Realizing Opinion Percent Protection Gang Eighty Attacking

Author:Michael Caine

“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

“I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.”

People Mean Language Wonderful Generations Communication Grew Grew Up Percent Fourth Deaf Accessibility Deafness Language And Communication Immediate Family

Author:Shoshannah Stern

“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

“Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.”

People Men Bigs Happens Team Percent Shots Including Coaches Coaching Nba Hook Ninety Bail

Author:Tom Heinsohn

“People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.”

People Reason Written Percent

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.”

People Want Can Do Moral Fire Skills Percent Practise Trainees

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

“The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.”

People Opportunity Seeing Pride Equal Percent Income Fairness Unfair Recessions Equal Opportunity Great Recession

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 percent. I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing." The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window.”

People Thinking Giving Long Facts Jesus Pay Stage Percent Window Guilty Bombing Humiliating Mics

Author:Bill Burr

“We're [Clinton Foundation] trying to get rapid tests that give you results when you're right there on site at an affordable price. Ninety percent of the HIV-positive people in the world don't know they have the infection. An enormous amount of infections are being perpetrated by people who don't know they themselves are HIV positive.”

People Knows World Giving Trying Results Amount Percent Tests Foundation Clinton Enormous Site Ninety Rapids Hiv Affordable Infection Positive People Hiv Positive

Author:William J. Clinton

“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

“Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.”

People Stills Two States Fighting United United States Land Percent Thirds Scales Canada Native Australia Indigenous Mining Aboriginal Uranium Uranium Mining

Author:Winona LaDuke

“You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”

People Persons Hard Lasts America Honesty Integrity Beats Percent Standing Enterprise Free Enterprise Honesty And Integrity

Author:Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

“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

“LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.”

People Want Littles Doe Ends Names Progress Information Like You Percent Tasks Boxes Bars Checks Linkedin

Author:Jesse Schell

“Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive”

People Wells Would Be Used Results Knowing Dog Percent Tasks Scientist Rewards Punishment Experiments Performing Sixty Replaced Earning

Author:Steve Aylett

“The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life.”

People Knows Ideas Real Social Rooms Percent Real Life Online Gamer Lone Gaming

Author:Jane McGonigal

“Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.”

People Shows Common Study Percent Treated Psychotherapy Relapse Antidepressants

Author:Irving Kirsch

“So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.”

People Said Environment Bears Directors Safe Creating Percent Asking Load Casting Safe Environment

Author:Lynn Shelton

“Confidence is key. You're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you. And at this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.”

People Want Giving Facts Next Week Keys Percent Bills Seven Treasury Next Week Seven Days Treasury Bill Confidence Is Key

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.”

People Ends Percent The End Of The Day Doms

Author:Dom Kennedy

“I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.”

People Thinking Way Facts Helping Percent Population Caring Liars Really Great Crooks

Author:Tom Hanks

“A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.”

People Done Christian Religious Cities Study New York Percent Claims University Jew

Author:William Bennett

“I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.”

People Thinking Hands Jobs Percent Aging Population Fortunate Retirement Hand In Hand Passionate Love

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can't pass a background check support background checks.”

People Mean Support Percent Backgrounds Checks Ninety Background Checks

Author:Bill Maher

“Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.”

People Years Two Ideas Found Simple Study Happened Trouble Week Team Percent Quitting No Idea Explanation Resolution New Year Two Weeks Psychologist New Year's Resolutions Monitoring

Author:Dave Barry

“In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.”

Source: One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation

“The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.”

“Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.”

People Percent Nine Call Me Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:David Hasselhoff

“When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Doe Bigs Three Company Player Depends Succeed Ten Percent Determine Great People Big Companies

Author:Steve Jobs

“From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.”

People Spiritual Politics Leadership Moral Planets Adventure Office Percent Guides Administration Presidential Spiritual Leadership Greatest Adventure

Author:William Allen White

“How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?”

People Jobs Percent Vote Seventies Polls Parlor

Author:Bill Hicks

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