70 Quotes

#1. Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,

Elaine Chao

#2. You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

Jack Nicholson

#3. According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

Kit Bond

#4. It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal.

Greg Giraldo

#5. Anesthesiology 2013 Feb;118(2):251-70;

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#6. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

Tina Turner

#7. When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Ashley Greene

#8. I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

Donald Hall

#9. They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Kenneth Blackwell

#10. I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

Gary Oldman

#11. Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.

Tina Turner

#12. Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

M. Emmet Walsh

#13. Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior.

Shane Claiborne

#14. On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their 'Instagram' feed. What this is about is making sure that the 30 percent you see is the best 30 percent possible.

Kevin Systrom

#15. The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.

Carly Fiorina

#16. Be a good listener to the elders. There is a good chance that you will learn something in 20 minutes or less that took them 70 or more years to learn.

Fredio Samples

#17. I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

Dennis Prager

#18. I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

Alison Bechdel

#19. Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

Zach Nelson

#20. Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#21. The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

Robert Sternberg

#22. The mystery of the artist is something that the 70's made, but it's not the same these days, and I don't know ... to me, I feel like letting your fans know about you is awesome.

Ryan Follese

#23. There is nothing wrong with feeling cold in Alaska at -70 degrees. It's when you feel nothing at all that it times to panic

Sergeant Major

#24. I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.

Gale Sayers

#25. You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.

Rand Paul

#26. live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which the relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" 70 have been thrown into big-time flux.

David Foster Wallace

#27. Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good.

Larry Rosenberg

#28. I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

Evel Knievel

#29. When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

Dana Gould

#30. I want it to be 70 per cent beautiful, 15 per cent surrealistically beautiful, and the rest so beautiful that nobody can bear it,

Zhang Huan

#31. At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.

John Searles

#32. Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

L. M. Boyd

#33. For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.

Elle Fanning

#34. I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Pharrell Williams

#35. But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?

Gary Taubes

#36. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

Colin Powell

#37. For 'Vikings,' we have to do so much outside shooting, and it's normally - I think with American shows, it'll be 60 or 70 percent inside and a little bit outside, but with us, it's almost 70 percent outside, and that's huge and really difficult.

Michael Hirst

#38. Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#39. Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.

James Roosevelt

#40. This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; [70] He only in a general honest thought And common good to all made one of them. His

William Shakespeare

#41. The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music
it's the new baby
and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.

Heather Headley

#42. I run 50-70 miles a week and lift five or six days. It's my time.

Casey Neistat

#43. I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.

Tim Gunn

#44. I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television.

Cilla Black

#45. The truth is that I am enslaved ... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#46. It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving," he explained, "and every man may take comfort from the fine saying that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."70

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#47. I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.

Lynn Schusterman

#48. The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.

Stephen Moyer

#49. I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

Gary Paulsen

#50. I throw 70 miles an hour. That's throwing like a girl.

Mo'ne Davis

#51. No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.

Michael Faraday

#52. I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

Mark McGwire

#53. Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.

Al Gore

#54. A report issued by the AAF surgeon general suggests that in the Fifteenth Air Force, between November 1, 1943, and May 25, 1945, 70 percent of men listed as killed in action died in operational aircraft accidents, not as a result of enemy action.

Laura Hillenbrand

#55. If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

Nick Clegg

#56. I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.

Howie Klein

#57. The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.

Marvin Ammori

#58. Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

Zach Condon

#59. Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.

Morris Gleitzman

#60. We played more rock music when we were writing the script. 'Renegade'. All of the Styx songs. All of the old '70's and '80's music, that's the stuff that's pounding in the background while we were doing this stuff. It's a part of those movies.

Todd Farmer

#61. To see someone 70 years old with dyed black hair, you're like, 'Hmmm, I dunno. Is that a wrinkled teenager? What is that?' So at some point, I'm going to have to stop doing this. It's gonna look ridiculous. I don't wanna look like Elvis Presley at 60 years old.

Peter Steele

#62. A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

John Shadegg

#63. Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

Arnold Palmer

#64. In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Jeff Bezos

#65. The B'nai B'rith is established by Jews in New York City as a Masonic Lodge. 70 years later this group will establish the notorious Anti-Defamation League, designed to promote any critics of Jewish supremacism or criminality, as, anti-Semitic.

Anonymous

#66. The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.

Frances Beinecke

#67. I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

Maud Adams

#68. I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

John Hodgman

#69. You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Jason Patric

#70. Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Herbie Mann

#71. If you are heading for 60, people will flirt with you; if you are heading for 70, they won't.

Trinny Woodall

#72. Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

Douglas Coupland

#73. I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

J.A. Konrath

#74. The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

George Will

#75. Almost 70 per cent of your fitness battle is won the day you realise what your body needs and when. I've made my own diets, and I decide for myself what works for me.

Arjun Rampal

#76. Her rapist went unpunished, and yet she was sterilized.70

Nancy Isenberg

#77. Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.

Evel Knievel

#78. Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

Arthur C. Brooks

#79. [22:70] Do you not realize that GOD knows everything in the heavens and everything on earth? All this is recorded in a record. This is easy for GOD to do.

Rashad Khalifa

#80. So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.

Bill Gates

#81. [Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Ronald Reagan

#82. More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.

Randy Neugebauer

#83. Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now (70) I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime

William Shakespeare

#84. I don't feel 70. I am still looking out from 14-year-old eyes.

Nolan Bushnell

#85. That middle ground of films used to be 70, 80, 90, 100; now it's like anything over 20 or under 140, the middle ground has become this huge area where they don't really want to be.

Eric Fellner

#86. ask what your 20-year-old self would think of you today, we invite you to think about what your 70, 80 or 100-year-old self would think of you now.

Lynda Gratton

#87. Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

Richard Leakey

#88. Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

Elise Hu

#89. When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

Roy Ayers

#90. Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

Ted Nugent

#91. Maybe some percentage that's substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.

Vinod Khosla

#92. When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

Evel Knievel

#93. I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it's certainly not easy.

Tom Brady

#94. For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.

Robert Doisneau

#95. Yanking at my leg, straining every muscle, my customized Gray Ghost rebuilt as a chopper sparks and squeals.
My boot catches and I'm flipped. Sliding down E-70 Highway on leather, my gloves scrubbed by the tarmac.

Poppet

#96. I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.

Gary Sinise

#97. At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

Marty Meehan

#98. Nonetheless, out of a life of 60 or 70 years, three years is more than a thousand days and a thousand nights

Alija Izetbegovic

#99. We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

Anthony Michael Hall

#100. When you pass 70, you forget your enemies. You think about the nice people instead.

Letitia Baldrige