“Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsArtFormActorsGivenActingRolesLuckyMajorsPercentWindowProfessionCraftsAwardsBroadwayPercentagesAcademyUnemployedNominationsAcademy Awards Author:Viola Davis
“In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.” PeopleAmericaSufferingEconomyFinePercent Author:Nina Turner
“The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.” PeopleWayWantYearsPartyStepsRepublicanPercentMinoritiesWillingnessWrong Way Author:Barbara Boxer
“There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.” PeopleKnowsWayCountryFormAbilityEffortIssuesDoubtRightsShapesPercentAgreeMajorityRadicalOpponentsNo DoubtWomens RightsChipsContraceptivesWomen's Health Author:Barbara Boxer
“In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on intangible, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.” PeopleKnowsAmericaBeautifulPayLeaderWallPercentHundredBordersTallSouthernMexicoGreat LeaderGreat PeopleIntangibleGreat Wall Author:Donald Trump
“Regardless of what ideological twist people may have, about 90 to 95 percent of our population [in Puerto Rico] really values our citizenship. It's of utmost importance.” PeopleMayValuesPercentImportancePopulationCitizenshipTwistsIdeologicalPuerto RicoRico Author:Ricky Rossello
“When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.” PeopleWellsCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentUnitedUnited StatesFiveFourMonthsTrumpWalkingPercentOur CountryCaliforniaRanSouthernWeekendRidingCountyHampshireNew HampshireSouthern CaliforniaCalifornians Author:Pat Buchanan
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesSeemsWould BeAgeCoursesLostNationsBlackRaceFiguresDrugComfortablePercentMovedAfrican AmericanUncomfortableJailBlack PeopleOffenseVeilsArrested Author:Michelle Alexander
“In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveMeanDoeImportantCountryValuesFourPositionCollegePercentMajorityDon't BelieveValuableOur CountryGraduatesBurmaCollege Graduates Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.” PeopleIfsKnowsCrazyBehaviorPercentBoringThirtyFortyStudious Author:Irvine Welsh
“You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we wouldn't have had to write our sketch.” PeopleIfsWritingUsedFiguresPercentPunctuation Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.” PeopleTryingDreamPercentBlessedGrantedDreams Come True Author:Michael B. Jordan
“The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.” PeopleThreeWealthHalfPercentBottomIncomeCollectivesHouseholdGrotesque Author:Thomas Pogge
“The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.” PeopleWorldGivingHumansThreePovertyFiveHugePercentBottomAveragePopulationNineIncomeInequalityThirtyQuartersHouseholdAvoidedRatiosHuman Population Author:Thomas Pogge
“The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.” PeopleWorldGivingTwoPovertyMilitaryCostPercentThirdsPopulationBillionsBudgetsCollectivesRoughWorld PopulationUs MilitaryMilitary Budget Author:Thomas Pogge
“Most of the productivity gains appear to go to the top 1 percent. Most people don't have enough income and as a result, they borrow additional money by using their credit card and they fall into high debt. The result of the growing income gap is a slower growing GDP (too few people with money to spend) and a rising tide of indebtedness.” PeopleEnoughFallResultsGrowingPercentGainsCreditDebtProductivityIncomeCardsRisingGapsTidesCredit CardGdpIndebtedness Author:Philip Kotler
“When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.” PeopleThinkingLittlesSometimesShowsMightRunningNightCoursesFiveHeardFrontsChangedTenPercentPerformancesEvery NightTheatricalDelivery Author:Don Rickles
“What democratic socialism is about is saying that it is immoral and wrong that the top one-tenth of 1 percent in this country own almost 90 percent - almost - own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. That it is wrong, today, in a rigged economy, that 57 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent. That when you look around the world, you see every other major country providing health care to all people as a right, except the United States.” PeopleWorldLooksCountryStatesCareTodayWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomyMajorsPercentDemocraticBottomIncomeSocialismAround The WorldHealth CareProvidingImmoralRiggedDemocratic Socialism Author:Bernie Sanders
“The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process. We have to increase voter turnout and citizen participation so that people know what's going on and demand a government that works for everybody and not just the one percent.” PeopleKnowsWayGovernmentHappensPoliticalProcessCitizensInvolvedDemandPercentIncreaseVotersParticipationVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.” PeopleNeedsWarCountryEnergyMorningMillionsPercentWake UpBillionsOur CountryAlternativesWowMachineryBillionaireAlternative EnergySolar Panels Author:Dar Williams
“About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.” PeopleKnowsHelpingSupportAmountPercentBuiltOperationsOld FriendsGrassrootsHelp And Support Author:Adam Kinzinger
“The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.” PeopleFirstsFactsWould BeFourFiguresPercentVotePollsMayors Author:Ed Koch
“I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.” PeopleStillsI CanFactsFrontsHavensArmsPagesBirdPercentNewspapersHivFluSwineBird FluSub Saharan AfricaSwine Flu Author:Annie Lennox
“Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?” PeopleThinkingLooksDoeEconomyFinePercentDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindWarStatesHelpingUnitedPayUnited StatesTaxesPercentIncome Author:Roseanne Barr
“Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.” PeopleThinkingWantChoicesSafePercentEighty Author:Phil McGraw
“I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.” PeopleKnowsCountrySportsHalfClassTrainingPercentDoctorsBottomAthleteSillyFiftyAcademic Author:Al McGuire
“It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensFeelingsNumbersPositivePercentHeyKnow MeReally CoolCool PeopleWeird Feeling Author:Christopher Meloni
“All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.” PeopleNeedsNumbersProductsNormalPercentTwentiesCreditSellingCardsProvidingWebsiteCredit Card Author:Kevin Mitnick
“Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.” PeopleWorldShouldFirstsSpeakLanguagePercentIgnorantHandfulPassportsIgnorant People Author:Michael Moore
“The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.” PeopleEconomyStreetsWallPercentCorporateExecutives Author:Michael Moore
“The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.” PeopleMenEndsFacesBlackChanceNumbersMediaFrontsCollegePagesPercentFairsPrisonNewspapersBlack PeopleLocksChances AreAll BlackLock UpBlack Face Author:Michael Moore
“Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.” PeopleDealsBrokenPercentOver ItInfidelityMonogamyBroken Up Author:Alanis Morissette
“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.” PeopleIfsAmericaDesireAnimalNumbersFiveImpossibleBirdPercentRaisesRaisedRangeMeatEggsFarmsMilkFactoriesSheerNinetyHumane Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.” PeopleKnowsMeanStatesTodayNamesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryPercentServingUniformsListeners Author:Oliver North
“Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.” PeopleLittlesPercentWineDrySugar Author:Pat Paulsen
“I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.” PeopleImportantCareReligiousIssuesFivePercentConcernedOrganizationTwentiesFolksHealth CareTonightTwenty FiveReligious FreedomCleveland Author:Rob Portman
“You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.” PeopleKnowsShowsResearchPercentCellsStemPollsStem CellStem Cell Research Author:Nancy Reagan
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksSaidI CanTurnsThreePresidentTermResultsEconomyWeekMonthsPercentYears AgoPresident ObamaThree YearsUnemploymentPropositions Author:Mitt Romney
“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.” PeopleIfsInspirationalInspirationPercentEthicsTreatsThriveNinetyNinety NineInspirational PresidentialInspiring PresidentialTreat 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.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsLooksSaidStillsFactsProblemGovernmentNextPercentSolveDebtNext YearPennies Author:Marco Rubio
“The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.” PeopleChildrenYoungSocialSecurityMinesReadyReturnPercentNegativeRateRetirementRetiringSocial SecurityPercentagesYoung Children Author:Paul Ryan
“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.” PeopleWorldNeedsWatchesPowerFiveAuthorityPercentBehaveNinetyAuthority And Power Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.” PeopleLosesPercentGainsWeightNinetyLose WeightVery Sad Author:Richard Simmons
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldWantPercentStabilityStarvingDieting Author:John Shelby Spong
“Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingCountrySkillsSixPercentDoctorsGreenCardsCanadaEmsEducateVisaGreen Card Author:Michael Bloomberg
“The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.” PeopleCompanyEconomyFiveToo MuchMediaHealthyPercent Author:Ted Turner
“Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.” PeoplePoliticalPoliticsPercentVoteNewspapersFifty Author:Gore Vidal
“And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.” PeopleSometimesAmericaRealizingPovertyPercentPersistentCountyRural America Author:Tom Vilsack
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingBelieveAmericaOpportunityI BelieveGrowsGrowing UpLandMilitaryPercentDon't BelievePopulationSixteenRural America Author:Tom Vilsack