“When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute, we wanted people to take it seriously so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that but they do it anyway.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksWantedFacesNamesPercentBuiltCuteRobots Author:Colin Angle
“I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.” KnowsWantShouldBelieveUseI BelievePowerfulMilitaryPercentChiefsMost PowerfulCommandersCommander In Chief Author:Phil Roe
“Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away-that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project-you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.” WorldWantNeedsAttentionSupportProjectsPercentCommittedConvictionMissionsObsessedGoing AwayPersistSupport You Author:Grant Cardone
“Ninety-eight percent of women in childbearing age who are Catholic use contraception. Ok, so in practice the church has not enforced this and now they want the federal government and private insurance to enforce it. It just isn't consistent to me.” WantUseGovernmentAgeChurchPracticePercentCatholicEightConsistentFederal GovernmentNinetyContraceptionChildbearingNinety EightPrivate Insurance Author:Nancy Pelosi
“In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.” PeopleWantCountryChurchPercentCongressClubsFifteenCountry Clubs Author:Alan K. Simpson
“Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.” ThinkingWorldWantBelieveMeanArtWantedBeautifulGirlNamesStarsImagineRocksClothesModelsPercentTownsClintonPhotographerNineExpensiveScreamLoadSmall TownNinetyBeautiful WomenRock StarMississippiNinety NineClosed MindedMost Beautiful Woman In The WorldExpensive Clothes Author:Crystal Renn
“I care about a hundred percent of the American people. I want a hundred percent of the American people to have a bright and prosperous future.” PeopleWantCarePercentI CareProsperousProsperous Future Author:Mitt Romney
“I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.” WantLawCompanyReturnPercentEightNinetyUkraineUkrainianPrivatizationNinety Eight Author:Viktor Yushchenko
“If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!” IfsKnowsWantFirstsHumansHas BeensSaidHalfPercentSomething NewNinetyHuman HistoryNew You Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“If you want a candidate who agrees with you 100 percent of the time, I'll give you a suggestion: Go home and look in the mirror. You are the only person you agree with 100 percent of the time. You'll always know who I am, you'll always know what I believe and you'll always know where I stand.” IfsKnowsWantGivingBelieveLooksPersonsHomeI BelievePercentMirrorsAgreeWho I AmCandidatesSuggestions Author:Chris Christie
“I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.” WantGivingPersonsJobsMotherPercentLikesBeing The BestGive 100 Percent Book:Getting Real Source: Getting Real
“I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and in the ring. I always want to put on a great fight for the fans.” WantGivingI CanFightingFocusFansTrainingPercentRingsConcentrationGet AheadFocus And ConcentrationGive 100 Percent Author:Leo Santa Cruz
“I want to be known as Dominican-that's what I am, 100 percent ... I have a duty and responsibility to continue the legacy of Dominicans in baseball.” WantResponsibilityKnownDutyPercentBaseballLegacy Author:Alex Rodriguez
“Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.” WayWantFeelsTryingI CanHelpingGamesTeamPercentBasesStealingLooking Forward Author:Carlos Beltran
“When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass.” IfsKnowsWantHardPlayChanceHard WorkPercentRapAssWasting TimePlay HardBustedNot Wasting Time Author:Ice T
“If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I really need to borrow, I have this emergency money that I can get, but for now there is no reason for me to keep cash at zero percent interest rate and at the same time, pay all of this money out. So, I think people need to figure out quickly how to pay loans and how much cash they should really keep.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsShouldFirstsLooksI CanReasonInterestPayFiguresPercentOkayRateCreditCardsNo ReasonZeroCashEmergenciesLoanCredit CardInterest Rate Author:Dan Ariely
“When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'” WantFirstsYoungCompanyPercentSellingDesignerCall MeCringe Author:Tom Ford
“I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.” WantI CanReasonMy OwnPercentFlyingHelicopters Author:LL Cool J
“If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.” IfsMenWantTodayAnswersCollegeHe ManRepublicanPercentMeetingsProfessorsRebelEstablishmentCampusCollege Campus Author:Ann Coulter
“As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.” PeopleIfsWantMayPersonsStatesProblemAbleAmericaUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesIssuesSeriousPercentConcernedGood PeopleKillersRefugeeIsisSyrian Refugees Author:Marco Rubio
“I don't think child care is ever going to be much of a federal effort. Just like education. Six or 7 percent - that's all I want from the government. Pay that piece of it for poor or developmentally disabled children.” ThinkingWantChildrenGovernmentCarePoorEffortPayPiecesSixPercentDisabledChild CareDisabled Children Author:Edward Zigler
“With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.” WantStillsIdeasRunningDiesCitiesCreaturesPercentAreasOur SocietyMulticulturalismMetropolitan Author:David Simon
“I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.” WorldWantBookPlayCarePercentDon't CareApplesGrossMarginsCharging Author:Gabe Newell
“I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.” WantNeedsUseSeemsStuffNovelFivePercentStealingAppropriateNinety Author:Paul Auster
“I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.” ThinkingWantFeelsLooksMadeActionThreeToo MuchPercentShouldersPreparationConsiderationNinety Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I think win the election big, if she can win it, I`d like to see Hillary Clinton 54, 55 percent because I want her to rule the country.” IfsThinkingWantCountryBigsWinningPercentElectionClinton Author:Ryan Grim
“I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life. I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don't need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life. I'm grateful for people's opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMenWantNeedsBelieveLooksMadeBeliefI BelieveChristOpinionChangedPercentGratefulGuidesSurrenderDaily LifeTheologianWholeheartedlyGuide MeLife Has ChangedChrist Alone Author:Alan Chambers
“Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.” PeopleWantIdeasArtistSongPercentBad People Author:Matt Corby
“10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.” WantYearsEnoughBigsWould BeProcessDifficultDealsFiguresHugeIntegrityApproachPercentYears AgoGoldAlbumsConsiderationAwardsBig DealCautiousSellersBest SellersHuge Changes Author:Cary Sherman
“I think our message,the Clinton campaign was very strong. Remember, this is their fourth campaign in South Carolina. Two for Bill Clinton. Two for Hillary Clinton. They had it well organized. They did well. And Icongratulate them. We came into that state at something like 7 or 8 percent in the polls. It was a tough road for us to hoe. But I want to thank all of our supporters, the members of the South Carolina state legislature.” ThinkingWantWellsTwoStatesRememberStrongMembersMessagesPercentToughBillsClintonSouthCampaignsOrganizedVery StrongFourthSupporterPollsLegislatureCarolinaSouth CarolinaHoeState Legislatures Author:Bernie Sanders
“I want to be sure that if people are coming to a show and paying $100 that I want to give them their money's worth. I try to give 100 percent.” PeopleIfsWantGivingTryingShowsPercentGive 100 Percent Author:Hugh Panaro
“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.” IfsThinkingWantLooksLittlesBookCharacterGirlStuffResponsibilityRolesModelsPercentDaughterFemaleWindowMalesStoresComicOddMy DaughterRole ModelsComic BookShelves Author:Mark Millar
“One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.” IfsWantChildrenSaidDoneYoungMotherPercentHundredPhonesYesterdayYoung WomenWant SomethingDo It Yourself Author:Reese Witherspoon
“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.” WantRealityTogetherPercentTwentiesSevenFranceGermanyStabilityMechanismPackagesBailouts Author:Martin Schulz
“President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That’s where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist.” WantLawNationsPresidentPercentTurkeysIslamistsShariaErdoganSharia Law Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I eat organic and cook my food whenever possible, and I live by the 80/20 rule. Eighty percent of the time I'm Stash all the way, 20 percent I enjoy the things I want.” WayWantEnjoyPercentCooksLive ByEighty Author:Laura Prepon
“Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.” WantTwoLove IsFiveModernPercentRateRoundsDivorceFiftyEnterpriseSixtyDivorce RatesModern Love Author:Esther Perel
“They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing."” WantShouldWritingSaidAnswersRaceListeningPercentBlameBoringHearingJournalistCandidatesSay AnythingControversial Author:Roger Ailes
“The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think by temperament he is unqualified to be president. I think his views - you have a guy who's running for president who rejects science, doesn't even believe climate change is real, let alone wants to do something about it, wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent.” ThinkingWantGivingMindBelieveDoeTwoRealStatesRunningGuyPresidentUnitedViewsBreakUnited StatesFocusTrumpTaxesPercentDollarsClimateClimate ChangeBillionsRejectsTemperamentUnqualifiedTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.” IfsMenWayWantYearsLooksInspirationAmericaBlackRaceDyingCoupleMarriedPercentYears AgoDatingMalesFasterShootingCorporateSomething NewJailArticlesBlack WomenLaddersBeing MarriedCounterpartsBlack MalesShooting Up Author:Sanaa Lathan
“[Donald Trump] has said that very consistently [about border], the contrast with Hillary Clinton, who supports amnesty, open borders, who wants to implement executive amnesty again on day one, even though the Supreme Court of the United States rejected it, and Hillary Clinton, who wants to increase refugees from the terrorist-torn country of Syria by 550 percent.” WantSaidCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesSupportTrumpPercentIncreaseCourtClintonTerroristSupremeBordersExecutivesContrastConsistentlyRejectedSyriaSupreme CourtTornRefugeeAmnesty Author:Mike Pence
“Hillary Clinton supports open borders, amnesty and even wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.” WantCountrySupportPercentIncreaseClintonBordersRefugeeAmnestySyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.” PeopleWantGivingWantedLife IsSpeakResultsPercentGratefulCommittedGrantedBeing ThankfulThankful For YouGrateful For YouGive 100 PercentThankful For LifeAlways Be Thankful Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith in government. If you're a liberal, it's just going to be tough. And you should just expect that. And it's tough for people on the right, too, because they don't get what they want either if you're, say, a libertarian. So, you have got the country sort of against you. And, nevertheless, you have a president.” PeopleIfsWantShouldCountryGovernmentPresidentPercentToughConservativeLibertarianHave FaithNevertheless Author:David Brooks
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass
“The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.” KnowsWantIdeasHomePlansHappenedPercentIncreaseClintonTerrorismRefuge Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.” WantTwoForcePartyFiveHighestPercentThirdsRateDebatePresidentialCandidatesVotersThroatSeptemberSeventiesDistrustPollsPresidential CandidateDisapprovalThird Parties Author:Jill Stein
“Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.” WantYearsCrimePercentPropertyVery GoodCooperationCreeps Author:Hillary Clinton
“More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.” WantRealizingWorstPercentPaidOptimisticAgreementWorst Fear Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.” WantHandsFacesNamesBehindsProductsProjectsPercentHundred Author:Kim Kardashian