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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted Turner

Control, Few, Read

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius, Quite, Content

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.
Coretta Scott King

Women, End, Children

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret Thatcher

Time, Yourself, Woman

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter Drucker

Time, Works, Management

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal

Hope, Same, Vote

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen

Life, Success, Seventy

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Doug Coupland

Human, Everything, Brain

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.
Sue Wicks

Good, Game, Win

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
Andy Rooney

Time, Computers, Everything

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays

Work, Hard, Able

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

Confusion, Agency, Commission

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson

Play, Makes, Choice

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain

Problem, Sense, Until

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

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

Accidents, Falling, Gravity

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

Carry, Sales, Twenty

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell

Technology, Students, Top

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
Harvey Fierstein

Actually, Voice, Average

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Power, Somebody, Watch

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
Gordie Howe

Peace, Yourself, Mind

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

Work, Good, Hard

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

Sex, Appeal, Fifty

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

Loyalty, Efficiency, Fifty

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy

Future, Yourself, Three

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.
Jim Elliot

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Jackie Mason

Men, America, Married

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
Barbara Corcoran

Beauty, Good, Great

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
Don Zimmer

Time, Giving, Made

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