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• I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Dollars, Environment

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• So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

  George Wald

  Twelve, Defense, Gross

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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

  Gordon Parks

  Cameras, Dollars, Fifty

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• There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Needs, Looks

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

  Steven Morrissey

  Artist, People

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

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• To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mean, Reality, Dollars

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• A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

  Loretta Lynn

  Two, Music Business, Two Cents

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• We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

  Johannes Rau

  Creativity, Mean, Giving

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• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  Hans Blix

  Zero, Military, Peculiar

  "Iraq Invasion Violated International Law: Blix". www.smh.com.au. August 07, 2003.

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• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Truth, Years

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• You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house
  And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth
  Cause I'll break your face...

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, Glasses, House

  "Song: 'Patiently Waiting'". 2003.

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• The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Greatest Fear, People

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• The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

  Curtis Jackson

  Greatest Fear, People

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• I'm a track star running through life, chasing my dream.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Dream, Stars

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• I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.

  Ed McBain

  Writing, Editors, Careers

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• But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

  William Allen Butler

  Mean, Dresses, Dollars

  William Allen Butler (1871). “Poems”, p.72

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• I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Two, People, Lucky

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• I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

  John Hurt

  Trying, Peculiar, Scripts

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• The public is never wrong. When people don’t respond to what you do, they’re telling you something loud and clear. You’re just not listening.

  Curtis Jackson

  People, Listening, Loud

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• Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

  Luther Burbank

  Thinking, People, World

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• In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

  George Canning

  Offering, Littles, Dutch

  Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)

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• They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

  Stephen Fry

  Bears, Comedy, Strive

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• When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.

  David Coverdale

  Thinking, Ideas, Band

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• So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

  Talib Kweli

  Moving, Thinking, Rapper

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