Percentage Quotes - page 6

I do feel we can create more jobs and opportunities for Jersey City residents, but in the spirit of free enterprise, I do not think it is right to force companies to hire a fixed percentage of local residents. (Frank Vincent)
But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.' View quote
Howie Carr
You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly. View quote
Iain Glen
I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home. View quote
James MacArthur
There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that! View quote
Jessica Szohr
I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others. View quote
Jim Bakker
Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas. View quote
Jim Rash
Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things. View quote
Jon Fishman
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education. View quote
Bill Owens
My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again. (Mona Simpson)
The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to. View quote
Rue McClanahan
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If the copyright owners instigate a project, like the movie, then I get a fee as creator. If I instigate a project, like the musical, I pay a percentage to the copyright owners. View quote
Sherwood Schwartz
My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private. View quote
Steve Aoki
There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good. View quote
Steven Van Zandt
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. View quote
Tony Gilroy
We're still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes. View quote
Daniel Abraham
The way America works, and the way L.A. works, is a very small percentage of people get what they want out of life, and a much greater percentage try very very hard and they don't. That's just the way it is. View quote
James Frey
Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut. View quote
Colin Powell
It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't. View quote
Paulo Freire
The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (Stephen Jay Gould)
For, while the heart is full of thoughts for a little group of selves, near and dear to us, how shall the rest of mankind fare in our souls? What percentage of love and care will there remain to bestow on the "great orphan?”. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws, as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. View quote
William Crookes
It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher. View quote
Steven Pinker
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. View quote
Hank Aaron