Cents Quotes

• I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

  Roy Acuff

  Men, One Man

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• I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

  Jodie Foster

  Recycling, Film, Commit

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• Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

  Robert Frost

  Money, Icy, Remember

  Further Range (1936) "Hardship of Accounting"

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• I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

  Don Hewitt

  Pay, Minutes, I Can

  "CBS charges 'Times' printed 'colossal lie'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 5, 2004.

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• I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

  Jerry Garcia

  Poverty, Reading Books, Ill

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• Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

  Pat Roberts

  Justice, Dollars, Rewards

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• Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

  Charles Goodyear

  Dollars, Should, Standards

  Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock (1939). “A Centennial volume of the writings of Charles Goodyear and Thomas Hancock”

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• A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

  Andrew Denton

  Believe, Years, Ends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Zahi Hawass

  Running, Egypt, Media

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• I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

  Sargent Shriver

  College, Meals, Remember

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• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Cutting, Two

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• Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

  Alexander John Ellis

  Used, Intervals

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• Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

  Muddy Waters

  Sunrise, Sandwiches, Find Me

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• My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Regret, Book, Successful

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• I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

  Will Ferrell

  Funny, Thinking, Four

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• I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

  Mike Easley

  Believe, Sunset, Years

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• There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Country, Cost, Cigar

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Skills, Luck

  Richie Benaud (2015). “Remembering Richie”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

  David Ogilvy

  Average, People, Body

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• The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, Population, World

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• Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Illiterate Person, People, Entering

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• At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

  Julie Bishop

  Lasts, Born, Census

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Mother, Pay

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• I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

  Jack Vance

  Years, Half, Firsts

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• I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

  Naomi Campbell

  Hard

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