“Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'” IfsGivingShouldSaidStillsWould BeAnswersInspiringTalentGiving UpAmbitionPercentHundredHollywoodExpertsFifty Author:Marilyn Monroe
“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
“In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.” StillsIdeasEconomyMiddleTaxesPercentSpendingDisasterClimbingHikingUnemploymentReducingPrescriptionsRecessionsRaising Taxes Author:Joe Biden
“I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.” IfsKnowsStillsBigsLosesNumbersAudienceTvsPercentWineLibrary Author:Gary Vaynerchuk
“The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.” PeopleWorldDoeStillsChristianNamesBecomingPercentClergymen Author:C. S. Lewis
“So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. “I don’t see that it makes that much difference. They’ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.” ThinkingStillsAsksGamesDifferencesStupidFiguresPercentHundredUsualOddsCompetitorsHaymitch Author:Suzanne Collins
“You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why. "Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out." "The interest alone is going to kill you." "What do you charge?" "Three hundred eighty-seven percent." "Is that ethical?" "It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan.” StillsThreeInterestPayMillionsImagineSonProvePercentHundredDatingYeahBillsDollarsPrisonSevenInnocenceSatanEthicalEightyMillion Dollars Book:Fifth Grave Past the Light: Number 5 in series Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light: Number 5 in series