Albert Shanker Quotes
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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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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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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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I always train 100 percent.
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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We make songs like a factory and put them out.
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'Gansey's partying with his mother,' Ronan said. He smelled like beer. 'And Noah's fucking dead. But Parrish is here'
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive?The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.
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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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One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
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Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.
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Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
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Those women with collagen lips just look like frogs - 'muffin mouths,' I call them. There's not a line on their brows, and all the emotion gone from their faces, like all those actresses in 'Desperate Housewives.'
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To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
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The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'
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We've got a lemon factory and we're turning out 80-85 percent lemons.
