#percent

The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. ↗

— Gregg Allman

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I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on. ↗

— Robert Ballard

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I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet. ↗

— Robert Ballard

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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#anybody #became #because #did #first

The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie. ↗

— Peter Bart

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A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. ↗

— Melvin Belli

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear. ↗

— Bobby Darin

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Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ↗

— Ron Blomberg

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Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

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