Cents Quotes - Page 16

• I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Artist, Faces

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• I despise hip hop. Loathe it. Eminem is an idiot and I find 50 Cent the most distasteful character I have ever crossed in my life. Eminem's new song about his kid - isn't it the most ridiculous piece of music you have ever heard in your life? I just don't like the dragging women around on dog leads and all that stuff

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Dog, Character

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• We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.

  Azim Premji

  Jobs, Responsibility, People

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• Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Believe, Men

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• I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dog, Cameras, Telescopes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the taxpayer. After all, we want to create jobs, not open a self-service shop for resourceful employers.

  Angela Merkel

  Jobs, Self, Germany

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• ..people (in Minnesota) avoid stupidity when possible, not wanting to be a $10 haircut on a 50 cent head.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Stupidity, Minnesota

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• 'Heroine' is about a declining and imbalanced superstar - a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She's a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she's very fragile.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Character, Brave, Tests

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• If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

  Sacha Guitry

  Genius, Idiot, Birth

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• At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

  Lou Holtz

  Average, Balance, Twenties

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

  William Easterly

  Children, Book, Medicine

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

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• Stamford Bridge holds 42,000. So ten per cent of that would be about 4.1 thousand

  Mike Parry

  Bridges, Would Be, Thousand

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• When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.

  Meek Mill

  Song, Growing Up, Track

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• Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.

  James Altucher

  Coffee, Men, Dollars

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• Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

  Robertson Davies

  Hands, Restoration, Dirt

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• Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Effort, Focus

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• As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

  James E. Faust

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Song, Kids, Trying

  "Rocker With a Soft Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. July 1, 2007.

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• [On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Land, Leaving, Soul

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• If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.

  Tony Blair

  Past, Years, People

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• Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

  Gordon Brown

  Years, Britain, Interest

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• People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

  Terry Wogan

  Successful, Winning, Awards

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• I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

  Colm Meaney

  Home, Cooking

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• Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

  Jessica Marais

  Motherhood

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• We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.

  Michael Meacher

  Growth, Excess, Goes On

  "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

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