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• In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

  Campbell Scott

  Editing, Somewhere Else, Actors

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• As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Levels, Sound, Boards

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• Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don’t have any of those things.
  They stare at us, they don’t miss anything. They really see what’s going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We’re too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what’s happening.

  Peter Straub

  Thinking, Color, Smell

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• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Italian, Birth, Grew

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• Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

  Ty Cobb

  Baseball, Hundred

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ocean, Air

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

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• I happen to believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. It’s whatever God made you. It happens that I’m heterosexual, but I don’t care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don’t have the ability to protect their rights.

  Ed Koch

  Believe, Rights, Care

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• I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and
  25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be
  true.

  Harry S. Truman

  Actors, Remember, Politician

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• I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

  Jack Newfield

  Kings, Boxing, Stealing

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• At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ambition

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• I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

  Hal Linden

  Moving, Starting Over, Roles

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• My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

  Steve Blank

  Business, What Matters, Data

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• It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

  Richard Jeni

  Marriage, Country, Divorce

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• When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photographer

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• Showing up is 80 percent of life.

  Woody Allen

  Showing Up

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Aug. 1977

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• I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Tennis, Monsters

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• I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court...Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve.

  Marat Safin

  Pain, Play, Yesterday

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.

  Michele Bachmann

  Weekend, Years, Yesterday

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• Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Conservative, Medieval

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Machanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June, 2009.

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• Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Ninety

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• I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Venture Science Fiction, March 1958.

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• If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health

  Carol Alt

  Helping, Introducing, Diets

  "Transcript: Carol Alt Talks About 'Eating in the Raw'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2005.

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