Percent Quotes

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

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

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

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

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

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much.

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

F1 teams need a driver who will consistently set lap times that are 100 percent on the edge.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Psychics can never be 100 percent. I think that would be scary to be 100 percent.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.