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• When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

  Roger Corman

  Matter, Today, Film

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• I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

  Steven Chu

  Country, Ocean, Thinking

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Thinking, Widows And Orphans

  "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2008.

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• I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.

  Jack Dorsey

  Mother, Lunch, Useless

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• We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

  Sean Duffy

  Impact, People, Voting

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• Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

  Jared Diamond

  Air, Years, People

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• If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

  John Ensign

  Enemy, Agree, Ifs

  "John Ensign's Unapologetic Critique". voices.washingtonpost.com. April 23, 2009.

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• I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Insecure, Giving, Trying

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• Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Hearing, Birth, Lost

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• I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store.

  Tyler Florence

  Dog, Thinking, Vegetables

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• One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

  Virginia Foxx

  Needs, Social, Polls

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• You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old.

  Billy Gardell

  Summer, Vegas, Years

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• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Latin, Years, America

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• I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Crazy, Stupid, Thinking

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• What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Doubt, Important, Rooms

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Land, Nitrogen

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• The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Ideas, Doe

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• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Hong Kong, Loan

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, School, Opportunity

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• I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

  Michael Chang

  Doctors, Littles, Months

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• When I hear the word "documentary," I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, "Yo -- don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom." Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean?

  Phife Dawg

  Mean, Thinking, Groups

  "A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg and Jarobi On the Beats, Rhymes & Life Beef and Rap Today". Interview with Jen Yamato, movieline.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.

  Ree Drummond

  Running, Advertising, Ninety

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• And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

  Richard Dooling

  Eight, Pieces, Care

  "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.

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• As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

  Corey Feldman

  Guy, Comedy, Entertainers

  "The Two Coreys: Together again!". Interview with Mandi Bierly, ew.com. July 19, 2006.

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• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Law, Ninety

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