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.
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Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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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.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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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.
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I always train 100 percent.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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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.
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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.
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One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
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Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
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Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.
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Only about 25 percent of our participants actively ski.
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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.
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Can I take on the Republican Party machine? Get real. No. Zero percent.
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We don't agree with Caitlyn Jenner deciding she is the spokesperson for trans people.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.
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For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.
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You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.
