#cent

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#counties #located #people #percent #persistent

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#actress #because #been #complain #got

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#away #english #go #go away #i

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#actor #because #better #blond #blond hair

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#african americans #ever #highest #history #homes

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II. ↗

— John Thune

#any #economy #end #entire #ii

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life. ↗

— Curt Flood

#area #black #change #every #i

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#been #borders #century #convergence #customs

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. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#feel #global #guilty #level #percent

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#also #i #innocent #lot #mature