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“I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.”

Dream Reality Football College One Day Percent Harsh Chasing College Football Harsh Reality

Author:Ray Lewis

“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.”

Ifs Giving Reality Young Actors Results Advice Percent Scripts Auditions Scrap Young Actors

Author:Wallace Shawn

“But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.”

Dream Reality Memories Opinion Future Essentials Judgment Percent Ninety Spinning Spinning Around

Author:Joko Beck

“In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.”

Use Reality Justice Enemy Cases Groups News Percent Treats Murder Everyday Journalism Target Reporters Spy Transmit Impunity Staggering Insurgent

Author:Mariane Pearl

“Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).”

Facts Reality Perception Percent

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.”

Reality America Talent Missing Percent Uplifting Miss America

Author:Gretchen Carlson

“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”

Children I Can Two Helping Problem Reality Social Lines Poor Wonder Poverty Five Building Percent Weak Twenties Our Children Safety Painful Solve Cycles Jail Twenty Five Interrupted Safety Net

Author:Peter Yarrow

“... The reality is that atmospheric CO2 has a minimal impact on greenhouse gases and world temperature. Water vapor is responsible for 95 percent of the greenhouse effect. CO2 contributes just 3.6 percent, with human activity responsible for only 3.2 percent of that. That is why some studies claim CO2 levels are largely irrelevant to global warming.”

World Humans Reality Water Levels Study Effects Activity Percent Claims Responsible Impact Global Warming Irrelevant Temperature Human Activity Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Co2 Vapor

Author:Walter Cunningham

“The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.”

People Years Has Beens Country Reality Earth Lasts Political Given Process Wealth Class Middle Majors Percent Dollars Middle Class Voters Lowest Given Up Voter Turnout

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.”

People Real Feelings Reality Jobs House White Talking Wonder Class Streets Middle Media Wall Percent Quitting Middle Class White House Unemployment Good Job Notable Talking Heads

Author:Jim Clifton

“The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money.”

Want Reality Together Percent Twenties Seven France Germany Stability Mechanism Packages Bailouts

Author:Martin Schulz

“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”

Inspirational Reality Work Effort Learning Blessing Percent And Love Accounts Intelligence Dues Serendipity Work And Love

Author:Peter McWilliams

“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

“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.”

“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.”

“The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.”

Ifs Persons Important Reality Percent Hundred Lonely Remembered Good Day Bad Day Important Person Most Important Person

Author:Kami Garcia