Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.Carolyn Hax
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall -
The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
Sally Yates -
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin -
I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
Carla Korbes -
Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
Eddie Perez
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
Patricia Ireland -
I always train 100 percent.
Canelo Alvarez -
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
Zooey Deschanel -
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca -
I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
Andy Rooney -
One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
Oprah Winfrey
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Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
Brian Tracy -
Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.
Dick Vitale -
Only about 25 percent of our participants actively ski.
Don Johnson -
He says the best way out is always through. And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through.
Robert Frost -
My breaking heart and I agree, that you and I could never be, so with my best...my very best, I set you free
Rachael Yamagata -
I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on.
Brian Andreas
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The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept.
J. D. Vance -
I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling -
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.
Keith Olbermann -
You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
Carolyn Hax