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This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail.
Connie Sellecca
Care
Took
Everything
Ourselves
Percent
Inspiration
Mail
Take
Take Care
Put
Answering
Lines
Personally
Fulfillment
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.
Conrad Black
Justice
Side
Criminal
Criminal Justice
Scant
Percent
Concern
Supreme
Supreme Court
Knows
Court
Least
Prisoners
American
Human
Shows
Mark Udall votes with President Obama 99 percent of the time.
Cory Gardner
Time
President
Mark
President Obama
Obama
Percent
Votes
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
Craig Kilborn
Phone
College
Other
Once
Month
Telephone
Says
Out
College Students
Percent
Drink
Students
Until
Answer
Pass
Least
Survey
It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.
Craig L. Thomas
Government
Year
Defense
Other
Spending
Would
Alleged
Rise
Percent
Fact
Federal
Federal Government
Over
Budget
Also
Discretionary
Being
In Fact
Anything
Cutting
Last
Last Year
We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.
Craig Venter
Simple
First
Experiment
Our
Synthetic
Those
Bacteria
Outcome
See
Trillion
Case
Percent
Give
Determined
Physiology
Almost
Genetic
Genetically
Genome
Least
Proves
Cells
Interactions
Them
Us
Really
Separate
Each
Units
Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere.
Craig Venter
Ocean
Release
Constantly
Atmosphere
Percent
Over
Major
Provide
Sink
Oxygen
Breathe
Organisms
Capturing
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.
Craig Venter
You
Percent
Fail
Another
Experiments
Your
Reason
Imagine
Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.
Craig Venter
Future
Will
Build
Sit
Down
Design
Hundred
Percent
Sometime
Computer
Terminal
Am
Scientists
Want
Certain
Organism
The chances of anyone of any race getting their own show are, like, .001 percent.
Cristela Alonzo
Own
Percent
Like
Any
Getting
Anyone
Race
Show
Chances
I'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation. Only 1.67 percent of these athletes go on to the NFL. An education provides you an opportunity for a career. A lot of people just don't get that. To say they aren't getting anything is misinformed.
Dabo Swinney
Education
You
People
Opportunity
Value
Big
Say
Athletes
Percent
Vocation
Only
Football
Part
Big Believer
Go
Provides
Lot
Get
Getting
Just
Anything
Believer
Career
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
Dale Archer
Stress
Will
About
Direct
Percent
Develop
Individuals
Know
Five
Disorder
Exposed
Traumatic
Thing
We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
Dan Burton
Justice
King
Lost
Same Thing
Congress
President
Approval
Percent
Guy
Rating
He
Like
Involved
Him
Does
Got
His
Dictatorial
Department
Same
Want
Happen
Justice Department
Acting
Your
Dad
Thing
Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
Dan Quayle
Important
Statement
States
Ours
Percent
Ally
Countries
Industrialized
Western
Itself
Japan
Capacity
United
United States
Two
Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.
Dane Cook
Best
You
Win
Fans
Musician
About
Percent
Give
General
Mail
Red
Red Sox
Comedian
Know
How
Effort
Just
Sox
Want
Region
Us
Your
Show
Even
Actually
Thing
Bring
Here
Appreciate
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
Danica McKellar
Needs
Business
Will
Lawyer
Our
Plus
Percent
Give
Fee
Fails
Camera
Salary
Manager
Gets
Flat
Which
Agent
Show
Show Business
Capture
Publicist
If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
Danica McKellar
Simple
Signs
Out
About
Percent
Something
Guy
He
Primal
Check
Name
Opens
Attractive
Sure
His
Very
Quickly
Effortlessly
Done
Tip
Tips
Anything
Really
Skilled
Cool
Figuring
I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
Daniel Cormier
Smile
Day
Me
You
Confidence
Every Day
Will
Every
Tell
Percent
Fact
Jon
He
Head
Makes
Deep
Actually
Thinks
The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Me
Try
Men
Reading
Think
Our
Say
Okay
Out
Would
Insignificant
About
Percent
Because
Audience
Dudes
Doing
Discourage
Male
Shocked
Site
Which
Toast
Who
Apparently
Actively
Number
Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
Danny Meyer
Percent
Brussels
Come
California
Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.
Darin Strauss
Memory
Matters
Too
Unnatural
Detail
Memoirs
Rarely
Percent
Only
Construct
Unreliable
Read
Private
Ballpark
Diaries
Diary
Accurate
Any
Autobiography
Even
In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.
Darren Star
Good
Writing
Think
Worst
Characters
Bad
Inside
Bad Guys
Percent
General
Guys
Never
No-One
Feel
Like
Themselves
Certainly
Even
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
Dave Barry
Accidents
Percent
Objects
Factor
Involving
Falling
Contributing
Nearly
Gravity
When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.
David Bryan
Giving
Band
Percent
Sweating
Playing
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.
David Byrne
Music
People
Guitar
Law
Too Many People
Too
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Percent
Given
Always
Bands
Going
Just
Crap
Decide
Them
Then
Many
The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did.
David Duchovny
Life
Work
Love
Family
Me
Man
Challenges
Responsibility
Fall
Took
Worst
Worst Thing
Admit
Percent
He
Still
His
Did
Family Life
Want
While
Mean
Fulfilled
Deep
Thing
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