About 90 percent of what’s out there in cyberspace is hearsay – or lies – and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it’s all repeated over and over again. – David Tang
The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. – Gregg Allman
I don’t think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate. – Elizabeth George
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. – Eric Topol
‘Supercentenarian’ is the term used by longevity experts to signify a near numerical impossibility: those who’ve outpaced 99.9999 percent of the population and landed in the 110+ Club. – Michael Paterniti
More than 40 percent of the electricity we generated in the Carolinas in 2015 was from carbon-free sources. – Lynn Good
We’ve got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That’s appalling. We can do so much better. – Joan Blades
Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries – that is an alarming statistic. – Ken Salazar
More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. – John A. Powell
According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September. – Kenneth H. Cooper
I’m actually more German than Scottish. I’m half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish. – Kimiko Glenn
The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. – John Olver
We still have a very good core following, and the shows have been almost one hundred percent sold out. – Josh Silver
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland. – Sean Connery
Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we’ve known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein. – Percy Julian
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing – and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed. – Paul A. Volcker
Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships… Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff. – Rose George
In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent. – Rebecca Traister
I’m definitely not at my best. Honestly, I’m under 50 percent. But I’ve won stuff under 50 percent before. – Serena Williams