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A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000. (Louann Brizendine)
If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' View quote
Nancy Greene
Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me. View quote
Arjun Rampal
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx. View quote
Aaron Siskind
Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day. View quote
Anjelica Huston
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. View quote
Al Stewart
We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards. View quote
Bill Shuster
The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly. View quote
Bjorn Lomborg
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas. View quote
Caio Fonseca
I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home. (Colm Meaney)
When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that. View quote
David Coverdale
In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay. View quote
David Tang
You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. View quote
Dick Dale
Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that. View quote
Dweezil Zappa
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families. View quote
Daniel Pauly
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. View quote
Ed Markey
Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on. View quote
Ed Rendell
Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup. (Glenn Hoddle)
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers. View quote
Garry Disher
Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen. View quote
Gary Vaynerchuk
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. View quote
James Levine
When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year. View quote
Jack McBrayer