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According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

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My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

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Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. ↗

— Ben Hogan

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If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been pumped, of about 3 percent of the oil reserves in the world. ↗

— Jay Inslee

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'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy. ↗

— Joaquin Andujar

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There is no filmmaking legislation because distributors are not interested in sharing their money with the film industry - for instance, by giving a percentage of ticket sales back to filmmakers. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy. ↗

— Zack Wamp

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