Quotes of: Ninetynine-percent Keyword

If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a country like India, but also up 9 percent in Japan and up 5 percent in the United States of America. It's not just a moral issue, not just a philoso...

Christine Lagarde

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.

Samuel Goldwyn

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

Lee Iacocca

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Colin Powell

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Lou Holtz

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Zooey Deschanel

The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women were smoking (CDC 2011). These...

The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the moder...

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN'T harassed? WHAT?! At MY school a hundred percent of the children - gay, straight,...

Penn Jillette

The principle of fair reduction is based on the concept of historic responsibility. Developed countries finished industrialising first. Thus, over the last 60 years, the developed countries, which represent 17 percent of the world's population, have ...

Yan Xuetong

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Lou Holtz

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Chris LeDoux

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

George Steinbrenner

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounde...

Stephen Colbert

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

Serena Williams

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

Peter Diamandis

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

Miranda Kerr

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

William Wyler

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Guy Kawasaki

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

Juan Williams