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One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Today
Change
Will
Depend
Gone
Live
Believe
Our
Resources
System
Kind
Percent
Main
Know
Fish
Fishing
According
Stock
Human
Want
Fifth
Sea
Now
As a woman who experienced infidelity firsthand, I will always advise my girlfriends to only trust their husbands 95 percent and leave 5 percent for human error.
Yolanda Hadid
Woman
Trust
Will
Husbands
Girlfriends
Percent
Only
Advise
Always
Firsthand
Leave
Error
Infidelity
Human
Experienced
Human Error
Who
The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.
Yuri Milner
Today
Daily
Important
Other
Assuming
Extremely
States
Kind
Percent
Only
Journal
Reaching
Yes
Very
Wall
Wall Street
Wall Street Journal
Newspaper
Newspapers
USA
USA Today
Population
United
Daily Basis
United States
Largest
Street
Street Journal
Basis
It's not a goal of mine to only play 45 percent of snaps. It's to be on the field for every single play.
Zach Ertz
Single
Field
Every
Mine
Percent
Only
Goal
Snaps
Play
Ninety percent of my ideas come to me either when I'm reading or watching a show.
Zara Cox
Me
Reading
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Percent
Come
Ideas
Either
Show
Watching
There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Alone
World
Country
Defense
One Country
About
Percent
Something
More
Troubling
Weird
Budgets
Condition
Than
Which
Population
Roughly
At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
Zeresenay Alemseged
You
Age
Behavior
Care
Three
Parents
Faster
Birth
Our
Easily
Percent
Environment
Over
Continue
Brain
Brains
Very
Than
Human
Human Behavior
After
Anyway
Formed
Us
Grow
Why
Cope
Humans
Need
I saturate freshly washed hair with thickening spray (R+Co). Then, using a Denman/styler brush and my Parlux, I brush and blow-dry the hair all over my head, in every direction, until it's 80 percent dry. This gives atomic body and a great foundation for styling in the morning.
Zoe Foster Blake
Great
Morning
Hair
Every
Atomic
Percent
Direction
Gives
Brush
Head
Over
Until
Dry
Styling
Spray
Then
Body
Using
Washed
Foundation
Saturate
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
Zooey Deschanel
Me
Writing
Down
Percent
Sitting
Working
Actually
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
Zosia Mamet
Time
Book
Reading
Thinking
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Percent
Dates
Could
Instead
Particularly
Go
Found
Enjoyable
Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
Walter O'Brien
Time
AI
Mistakes
Some
Percent
Developed
Wrong
Make
Lot
Error
Close
Afford
Human
Anymore
Human Error
Companies
Gap
Technologies
Humans
Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
Quincy Jones
You
Together
Better
Half
Year
Band
Few
Bit
Jobs
Bad
About
About A Year
Percent
Give
Guys
Take
Know
Make
Sound
Get
Blow
Just
Little
Little Bit
Then
Each
Four
And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
Barack Obama
Health
Progress
Inflation
Care
Made
Important
Single
Year
Our
Deficit
Way
Slightly
Percent
Above
Costs
Could
Instead
Most
Terms
Most Important Thing
Health Care
Health Care Costs
Important Thing
Reducing
Goal
Huge
Up
Get
Did
Going
Maybe
Just
Why
Thing
Level
Care Costs
According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
Xavier Becerra
Decision
Will
Three
Year
Research
Alcohol
Teenage
Unlimited
Months
Say
Faced
Percent
Making
According
Regarding
Next
Ninety percent of cyber security companies begin in the detection stage. The issue is there are so many applications and alarming messages it is difficult for the user or the administrator to manage.
Ken Xie
Stage
Difficult
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Security
Administrator
Detection
Percent
Messages
Issue
Begin
Manage
Cyber
User
Companies
Many
Alarming
Applications
We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.
Óscar Arias
Better
Responsibility
Stronger
Poverty
Believe
State
Latin
Percent
More
Alleviate
Crushing
Economy
Most
Also
Globally
Integrated
Affirm
Cure
Than
Afflicts
America
May
Us
Population
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
Failure
Giving
White
Kidney
About
Percent
Rate
Make
Make Up
Greater
Up
Times
Than
American
Patients
African
African Americans
Them
Population
Treated
This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.
Robert Kiyosaki
Game
Money
Financial
Example
Rule
Percent
Ten
Take
True
Almost
Almost Anything
For Example
Make
Anything
Golf
Holds
Golfers
Professional
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
Bill Gates
Government
Me
People
Approval
Those
Statistics
Be Different
Percent
U.S. Government
Over
Like
Supposed
Well
Always
Amazes
Different
Chinese
Chinese Government
Elect
Elected
Fully
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
Youssou N'Dour
Attitude
Faith
You
Culture
Arab
Percent
Mistaken
Islamic
Always
West
Itself
Fundamentalist
Associated
I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.
Princess Nokia
Music
Control
Finances
Percent
Artistry
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Work
Day
Struggle
Achieve
Our
Lies
Percent
Never
Never Stop
Performance
Until
Audience
Get
Trying
Die
Gets
Stop
Where
Us
Spaniards were condemned for appeasing terrorism by voting for withdrawing troops from Iraq in the absence of U.N. authorization - that is, for taking a stand rather like that of 70 percent of Americans, who called for the U.N. to take the leading role in Iraq.
Noam Chomsky
Terrorism
Voting
Percent
Rather
Absence
Troops
Take
Taking
Leading
Leading Role
Like
Withdrawing
Condemned
Were
Iraq
Role
American
Authorization
Stand
Who
On 'Avatar', I learned that it's worth taking some risks and doing some weird little things with characters or having an off-joke here and there, even if it's only for 5 percent of the audience.
Aaron Ehasz
Risks
Little Things
Worth
Characters
Some
Percent
Having
Only
Taking
Weird
Learned
Audience
Doing
Little
Avatar
Even
Things
Here
I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah
Work
Mom
School
Year
Back
Back To School
Out
Promised
Would
Percent
Never
Putting
Go
Did
After
Work Out
Career
There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.
P. J. O'Rourke
Vote
Judge
Election
Presidential
Presidential Election
Total
Percent
Combined
Perot
Ballots
Clinton
American
Who
Number
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