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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost

Remember, Nobody, Meant

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia

Live, Poverty, Themselves

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder

Great, Rest, Danger

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson

Freedom, Nothing, Real

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams

Good, Country, Trouble

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin

Single, Goes, Straight

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
Karl Lagerfeld

Less, Skinny, France

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Real, Through

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
Stephen Fry

Human, Down, Ourselves

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Karl Lagerfeld

Health, Bad, Dangerous

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
George Canning

Matters, Content, Advantage

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell

Work, Hard, Worth

The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of the taxes. By most people's standards, that's already fair. The President is playing the class warfare card because he knows that a lot of people may never hear that particular fact. But it's a fact.
Herman Cain

May, Give, Fact

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
Will Ferrell

Funny, Time, Four

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
Zahi Hawass

Good, Nothing, After

There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50 per cent more readers.
David Ogilvy

Readers, Attract, Pages

It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar

Cool, Done, Guy

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
Sheryl Sandberg

Women, Making, State

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
Steven Morrissey

Actually, Artists, Per

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
Jon Bon Jovi

Politics, Hate, Political

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank

Greatest, Thinking, Less

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'
Rihanna

Beautiful, Someone, Mean

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
Natalie Portman

Good, Great, Learn

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Actually, Artists, Per

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
Gene Tierney

Used, Actress, Earned

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value.
Evan Davis

Making, Value, Actually

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.
Evan Davis

Human, Country, Order

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.
Jay London

Asked, Store, Kicked

Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
Bjork

Ideal, Vocal, Humidity

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.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Love, Time, Negative

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