Ninety Eight Quotes

• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Country, Honesty, Work

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• And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• The product will remain basically unknown until seven percent of the population knows it. As soon as seven percent of the population knows about that product, on the next day, about ninety-eight percent of the population knows about it.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Next Day, Population, Seven

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• For some years now, I've been doing a program called "Sinatra Sings Sinatra." It's been going on virtually since the end of '98. Nineteen ninety-eight was the year Frank Sinatra died. ... Now having reached what would have been his 100th year - I decided back in 2013 when we started to put all of this together, I decided what we should do was the first "Sinatra Sings Sinatra" in which we go audio visual.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Eight, Years, Together

  Source: www.news-journalonline.com

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• He'd once heard a story about a monastery on the top of some mountain in Japan or somewhere. After a long trek in the cold to get there, the monks would offer to sell you a cup of coffee. You had a choice: There was a two-dollar cup - or a two-hundred- dollar cup. When pressed to explain the difference, the monks were reported to say, 'A hundred and ninety-eight dollars.'

  Steve Perry

  Coffee, Eight, Japan

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• If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

  The Writers Write Interview, writerswrite.co.za. February 10, 2015.

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• The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

  Deepak Chopra

  Eight, Years, Molecules

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

  John Olver

  Travel, Eight, Air

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• 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.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Eight, Government, Practice

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• Ninety-eight percent of all the soy that's raised goes to livestock. So people make fun of vegetarians for being tofu eaters, but no one eats tofu like steak eaters, by a long shot. It's also funny that tofu is held up as what a vegetarian eats. I mean maybe I eat tofu once a month, but other than that, never. All of it, statistically speaking, is going to livestock.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Fun, Mean, Long

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• 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.

  Viktor Yushchenko

  Eight, Ukraine, Law

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.

  Russell Conwell

  Honesty, Men, Eight

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• Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.

  Megan Fox

  Eight, Mouths, Offensive

  "Megan Fox Calls Her Power Over Men 'Supernatural'". Interview with Scott Huver, people.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Science, Eight

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• I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.

  Orson Welles

  Eight, Two, Hustle

  Interview with Leslie Megahey for The Orson Welles Story (1982). "Orson Welles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)" by Mark Estrin, University Press of Mississippi, p. 209, 2002.

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• of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

  Charles Bukowski

  Eight, Ninety, Hundred

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• Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

  Stephen King

  People, Goes On, Percent

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

  Nora Roberts

  Eight, One Day, Abnormal

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• You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.

  Richard Yates

  Sweet, Jobs, Nice

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• Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart.

  Cathy Ferguson

  Success, Running, Heart

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• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Usual, Movement

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

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• Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

  Julian Fellowes

  Eight, Cameras, Actors

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• Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

  Arthur Smith

  Funny, Laughter, Eight

  "Culture" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

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