Percentages Quotes

• If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Children

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• I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat in a burger and can actually name the temperature to which it was actually cooked to the degree if I'm, you know, really on my game.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Games, Names

  "Foodie Wannabe? Here's How To Fake It". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 7, 2011.

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

  Bill Mollison

  Change, Food, Garden

  "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

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• We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Cancer

  "Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Amnesia Moon”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Education, Ideas, Conscious

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• Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.

  David M. Shoup

  Military, Marine, Winning

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• Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Charlie Munger's comments on business and investing topics at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

  Steve Aoki

  Private Life, Swear

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• Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

  Miles Franklin

  Selfish, Views, Shoes

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

  David Jeremiah

  Uplifting, Would Be, Today

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• 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

  C. S. Lewis

  Death, Cents, Dies

  "The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

  Wayne Allard

  Adults, Would Be, Income

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• When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.

  Roger Moore

  Years, Personality, Luck

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year.

  Mitchell Zuckoff

  Running, Men, Years

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• In the Seventies, women runners, developing amenorrhea and calcium-related shin splints, were the first to realize that nature is hovering over us, ready to shut down our systems if our fetus-feeding fat reserve drops below a certain percentage of body weight. In other words, in nature's eyes we are nothing but milk sacs and fat deposits.

  Camille Paglia

  Eye, Body Weight, Fetus

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.41, Vintage

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• It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

  Robert Higgs

  Lines, Littles, Poverty

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• A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

  Bela Karolyi

  Building Up, Practice, Vaults

  "Gymnastics Vault Needs 'Speed, Explosive Action'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2012.

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• You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

  David James Duncan

  Soul, Papa, Males

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.12, Dial Press

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• The ideal ratio is one computer to every five students; we are nowhere close to that percentage in a lot of schools in America.

  Spencer Abraham

  School, America, Ratios

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• Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Body, Prostitution, Depreciation

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• I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.

  Rutger Hauer

  Play, People, Guy

  Actor Rutger Hauer Is Retribution Personified" by Rick Paulas, www.wired.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It's more of a ... it's not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.

  Tim Allen

  Hard Work, Thinking, Rehearsal

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• a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Running, Unique

  "Oblivion: Stories (Mister Squishy)". Book by David Foster Wallace, June 8, 2004.

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