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Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.


Chuck Barris

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GORE VIDAL Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whateve...
ROBERT BALLARD One hundred and 55 percent, definitely, ... Unless something ungodly happens.
JOE HORN Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
JOHN CHEEVER Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
JOHN CHEEVER He'll play this week. He's not 100 percent, but 90 percent of Brian is better than most people at 10...
BRAD CLANTON Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.
TY COBB One hundred percent of dogs will be susceptible.
EDWARD DUBOVI Regression lives on, not because of the unavailability of a better option but because of the inertia...
EVERSKEPTIC Fifty-four percent more companies are looking at this region today than 14 months ago,
BOB COOK One hundred percent of the area is completely covered with mud.
RICHARD GORDON Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
SOPHIA LOREN One hundred percent of the students who graduate are employed. There's more jobs than we can fill. I...
JEFF BRICKER (Deputy Glitters) is 100 percent better than last time.
JOSE LEZCANO One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons
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STEVE MARIUCCI Modeling is my number one priority - one hundred percent.
KENDALL JENNER One hundred percent of our fund-raising is given back to Burlington.
KRIS FISCHER One hundred percent juice is derived straight from the fruit, cannot have any sweeteners and has to ...
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JESSE BARFIELD I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to gi...
WILSON MIZNER What this fund does is meet the needs of the victims. One-hundred percent goes to the victims. Nothi...
MARY WORMINGTON Fifty-one percent of stolen art is found in art catalogs. People try to fence it,
CHARLES PROUTY A hundred percent? I don't know that.
HERMAN EDWARDS We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50...
GRAY DAVIS Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
SOPHIA LOREN It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
WALTER SCOTT It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his effi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
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LINUS PAULING The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS Sex appeal is fifty percent what you
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MARGARET WHITFIELD One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
KNUTE ROCKNE I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, li...
LOU FERRIGNO Better fifty enemies outside the house than one within
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CARLOS SANTOS Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still rem...
ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN One lover can cause you pain better than hundred of enemies.
HAIFA SANAD Out of every one hundred Americans, fewer than two get aid from today’s cash welfare program. Just...
KATHRYN EDIN Fifty-six percent heritability -- that's a fairly large contribution of genes.
CYNTHIA M. BULIK One good head is better than a hundred strong hands
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GOPAL AHLUWALIA Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. LAING Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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WALTER GILBERT Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER At that point, North America will represent less than 20 percent of world capacity, down from 25 per...
CARLOS GOMES The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people th...
MARK LEARY Three years ago, almost 80 percent of child care facilities (in Pitt and Martin counties) were one s...
MARTA KOESLING It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of th...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five perce...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Fifty percent of teens are downloading that content on a regular basis.
BEN ROGERS One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
KNUTE ROCKNE We found that the prevalence of depression was 40 percent in women age 60 years or younger, 21 perce...
DR. SUSMITA MALLIK Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.
ISLA FISHER The Rover comes with a written, one hundred-percent lifetime warranty.
EUGENE CERNAN Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.
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CHRISTOPHER PAYNE In terms of production output costs, Thailand is approximately 20 percent higher and the Philippines...
MICHAEL AUSTIN More than 90% of our customers are running Microsoft in part of their operations. Fifty percent of o...
DON BULENS The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND We played immensely better. Oklahoma City is one of the top three or four teams in the league. We di...
RICHARD DAVIS San Jose is a lot better place to be than Augusta, Georgia, where there's 100 percent humidity.
DAVE MCKAE I think he's probably 80 percent better than he was last spring and 30 percent better than last fall...
WALT HARRIS I think it's inexcusable we don't do a better job of training. The average turnover rate is somethin...
TODD SPENCER Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY A hundred percent of anything is impossible when you're dealing with human beings.
BILL WISE One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
KNUTE ROCKNE Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the ot...
THOMAS A. EDISON You had better have one King than five hundred.
CHARLES II An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.
JAMIE RAPPAPORT CLARK Turkey is seeing a fatality rate of 20 percent which is lower than the fatality rate observed in Asi...
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ROBERT GILLESPIE In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
LAUREN BACALL It's safe, easy, and accurate. The error rate of an e-filed return is less than 1 percent. The error...
JESSE WELLER It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
DOLORES IBARRURI It is not a massive savings, not like putting in 10 percent energy and getting out 100 percent. We f...
DAN KAMMEN South Dakota is doing better than some other states, but still, with 44 percent of the major facilit...
CHRISTY LEAVITT Trucks make up more than 60 percent of our sales.
BRENDA RIOS Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.
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BILL LOWRY Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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CHUCK BERRY Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ...
CHUCK BERRY Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really we...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed ...
CHUCK ZITO It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in th...
CHUCK NORRIS Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
CHUCK CLOSE In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tai...
CHUCK NORRIS I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about tha...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart...
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