Percent Quotes
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We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.
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There's about a 40 percent chance of getting it done.
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The (threshold in the) prospectus is at 90 percent. We want the whole of the company.
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Chess is 99 percent calculation.
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
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Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.
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I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."
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I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.
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... For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric CO2 has continued to accumulate - up about 4 percent in the last 10 years - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That should raise obvious questions about CO2 being the cause of climate change.
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If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent.
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I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.
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Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.
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I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'
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Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.
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It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.
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Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
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Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
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The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.
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Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.
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Its not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.
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If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
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Can I take on the Republican Party machine? Get real. No. Zero percent.
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But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
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I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'
