A Quote by Joseph Wambaugh

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

Joseph Wambaugh

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Joseph Wambaugh
American - Writer
Born: January 22, 1937

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

Jay Duplass

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.

Phillip Noyce

It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

Richelle Mead

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

Juan Manuel Fangio

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

Wim Wenders

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

George Steinbrenner

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.

Lee Iacocca

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

Baron Corbin

Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Women are raised to be the nurturers and steadiers of rocked boats, to hold relationships in place as if our lives depended on it. But it shores up your own dignity and integrity if you're able to say, "There are a million things I love about you, and I want our relationship to continue. I forgive you 95 percent, but not this 5 percent."

Harriet Lerner

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

Harvey Fierstein

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

Eric Clapton

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

Melanie Mayron

Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.

Henry Ford

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

Ha-Joon Chang

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