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• Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

  Jay Chiat

  Mean, Talking, Visions Of The Future

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

  John Larroquette

  Successful, Careers, Filled

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 5, 2008.

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• If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

  Brett Favre

  Commitment, Play, Ifs

  "Brett Favre Has His Say 'On The Record" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2008.

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• Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

  Janet Guthrie

  Effort, Racing, Use

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• Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

  Joe Montana

  Sports, Thinking, Play

  "Joe Montana discusses SF Giants, 49ers quarterback". Interview with Brian Murphy, Paul McCaffrey, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

  Geena Davis

  America, Sound, Vote

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• Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.

  Maureen Reagan

  Giving, Political, Males

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• The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

  Michael Eisner

  Mean, Successful, Odds

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• Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

  Mariah Carey

  Baby, Weight, Losing

  "Mariah Carey Flaunts Her Figure in SHAPE’s May Issue". Shape Magazine Interview, www.shape.com.

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• In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

  Wim Wenders

  Four, Film, Late

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

  Bill Pullman

  Trying, Remember, Projects

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

  James Ellroy

  School, Kids, Attention

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• As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Pain, Player

  "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.

  Bobby Jindal

  Energy, Thirty, Coast

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• If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.

  Rick Santorum

  Men, Thinking, Office

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• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Attitude, Islamic, Culture

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• Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in their head. The vast majority of writers simply write because they have to.

  Steve Berry

  Writing, Voice, Majority

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• When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

  Steve Berry

  Country, Past, World

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• Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

  Sylvia Browne

  Thinking, Psychics, Scary

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• Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.

  Michael Azerrad

  Thinking, Skills, People

  "TALK: Michael Azerrad". Interview with Jim Shearer, www.ifc.com. September 18, 2008.

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• In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

  Ron Chernow

  Down And, Margins

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• I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.

  Robert Pozen

  Ohio, Principles, Needs

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• If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

  Soulja Boy

  Clubs, Streets, Ifs

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• We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

  Arthur Blank

  Home, Years, People

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• It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

  Ben Bernanke

  Two, Growth, Unemployment

  "Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Take On The Economy". "60 minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 3, 2010.

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