A Quote by Daniel Handler

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

Daniel Handler

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Daniel Handler
American - Author
Born: February 28, 1970

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.

Graydon Carter

It sounds so innocuous but the difference between 99 percent and 100 percent is huge. You can finish at 99 percent and you'll be hurting but if you push a tiny bit more - and that's the bit that makes the difference to your training - your legs just grind to a halt. It's like your engine is seizing up.

Chris Hoy

Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent.

Kirstie Alley

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

Mike Myers

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

Andrew Lo

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

James C. Collins

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

John McGraw

You know, you've got fans and 99.9 percent of them are great-and .1 percent are jerks.

Metta World Peace

It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.

Richard Ojeda

You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

Will Smith

By my estimation, dating was 1 percent confidence and 99 percent troubleshooting.

Ophira Eisenberg

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

Ro Khanna

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Barry Schuler

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

Louise Brooks

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

Lloyd Kaufman

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