80 Quotes

#1. I'm Penryn. I'm named after an exit off Interstate 80."
"Nice." They nod as if to say they understand what it's like to have parents like that.

Susan Ee

#2. How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel
on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

Dean Hamer

#3. In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80 ... uh, 69.

Eugene Ormandy

#5. The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

Dave Ramsey

#6. When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

Dalai Lama

#7. In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.

Betsey Johnson

#8. The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Robert D. Kaplan

#9. If another euro country fails, so does Slovakia. Our economy is 80% open and if the citizens of Spain and Portugal have no money to buy cars made here in Slovakia then that will be bad for us. Everything is connected.

Iveta Radicova

#10. I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.

Pep Guardiola

#11. I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs.

Richard Krajicek

#12. When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Erik Erikson

#13. To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.

Jean Patou

#14. I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

Adam Pally

#15. The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

Natalie Cole

#16. Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

Sebastian Junger

#17. Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Rod Steiger

#18. High male earnings have also become less important to women. A 2001 poll in the United States found that 80 percent of women in their twenties believed that having a husband who can talk about his feelings was more important than having one who makes a good living.11

Stephanie Coontz

#19. I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

James Nesbitt

#20. About 80 percent of the photos on Flickr are public and searchable by everyone. In one sense, it's a place where people upload snapshots from the family reunion, wedding or the birth of a baby or something like that, but it's also a place where people go to show what the world looks like to them.

Stewart Butterfield

#21. It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.

Allen Klein

#22. We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!

Richard Koch

#23. I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

Mark Edwards

#24. Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Ronald Reagan

#25. What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?

Jose Mujica

#26. I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!

Amber Rose

#27. The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#28. Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.

Steve Spurrier

#29. The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

Joe Heck

#30. Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn't make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I'd be cheating my core audience.

Rohit Shetty

#31. If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel like my skills are fading, I just won't do it publicly.

Tony Hawk

#32. The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

Gwynne Dyer

#33. The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

Ian Poulter

#34. If you run a business, 80% of your business probably comes from 20% of your customers. If you are a creative person, 80% of your awards/recognition/income will come from 20% of your output.

David Hieatt

#35. You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

Cathy Rigby

#36. I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof.

Joan Rivers

#37. I'd love to do a comedy. Umm, I don't know when that will happen - maybe when I'm, like, 80 or something. But yeah, I'd love to. I'm just waiting for the right person to see my hilarious nature and offer me a comedy.

Lena Headey

#38. There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

Jim Rohn

#39. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Gary Hamel

#40. When you go for business, you just see the airport, the offices, cities. You never see what 80 per cent of the population does in a country, so if you want to understand what Indonesia is made of, or the depths of China or India, you have to go and see.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire

#41. I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops

Steven Wright

#42. Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

Matt Corby

#43. The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.

Thomas Pogge

#44. 33 percent of high school graduates who don't go on to college never read another book for the rest of their lives, and 42 percent of college graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Sadly, 80 percent of U.S. families didn't buy or read any books last year.

Jason Merkoski

#45. Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.

Ariel Sharon

#46. It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
upon the masses in 2012.

Phil Collen

#47. Eli Lilly had decided not to sell in Japan in the 80's because of a lack of demand, but with the introduction of the new diagnosis kokoro no kaze (which translates to "your soul has a cold"), mild depression became a "real" illness, treatable with medication.

Margee Kerr

#48. According to a certain survey, nearly half of the whole population of women is on some sort of diet. That same survey also says that almost 80% are not satisfied with the way they looked and think about this at least 8 times a day.

Amy Charles

#49. Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Neil Diamond

#50. Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.

Andy Grove

#51. Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.

William Schutz

#52. When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

Karen Salmansohn

#53. Close to birth ... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

Lou Ferrigno

#54. Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

George Weah

#55. Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

Zooey Deschanel

#56. The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.

John Manning

#57. I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that's swag.

Soulja Boy

#58. We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.

Jason Hawes

#59. I'm 80% done with The Darker Side of Trey : It was a pitiful truth. That people seemed unwilling to see the abused, even when they were right in front of them, silently screaming for help. I know, because everyone had done it to me, time and again

Tara Spears

#60. My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I've lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.

Justin Bieber

#61. We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

Nate Silver

#62. The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.

Laurie Glimcher

#63. People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

Geoff Rickly

#64. I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.

Matthew Morrison

#65. Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.

Stefan Emunds

#66. I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

Tom Hanks

#67. Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#68. Grocery stores can't afford to pay $80 a square foot. At that rate, we are going out of business.

John Catsimatidis

#69. While 45 percent of the land on earth is used to raise animals and food to feed them, it is estimated that only 5 percent is used to grow plant-based foods consumed directly by humans. This 5 percent, though, supplies 80 percent of the calories consumed by humans.15

Richard Oppenlander

#70. By some analysts' estimates, the Cupertino company now pockets as much as 80 percent of the profits of the entire cellphone handset business.

Brent Schlender

#71. Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.

Alex Pareene

#72. Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.

Marty Meehan

#73. I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me.

Morris Chestnut

#74. In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

David Brooks

#75. If Jack Nicklaus had to play my tee shots, he couldn't break 80. He'd be a pharmacist with a string of drugstores in Ohio.

Lee Trevino

#76. If you are working 80 hours a week at a job which shrivels your soul, then you are a slave. I don't are whether you are earning $600,000 a year or more. Life is precious. Each minute is a priceless gift. No amount of money can reclaim lost time.

Leonard Sax

#77. Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.

Reed Mullin

#78. During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

Simon Sinek

#79. An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

Rusty Schweickart

#80. I don't play much golf anymore. I can't - if I break 80, I'm doing pretty well.

Jack Nicklaus

#81. In 1775 Asia accounted for 80 per cent of the world economy. The combined economies of India and China alone represented two-thirds of global production. In comparison, Europe was an economic dwarf.

Yuval Noah Harari

#82. Running is 80 percent mental.

Joan Benoit

#83. As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

Mae Jemison

#84. I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.

Vaclav Smil

#85. Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

Brian Tracy

#86. Remember that we remember very little! 10% of what we read or hear 50% of what we hear and see 80% of what we say 90% of what we say while doing For

Imran Umar

#87. With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.

Apolo Ohno

#88. If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Joey Adams

#89. Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i'm a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe.

Shannon Hale

#90. When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don't remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.

Leymah Gbowee

#91. If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

Carl Yastrzemski

#92. I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Derek Jacobi

#93. But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

Dwight Yoakam

#94. For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

Gerry Harvey

#95. Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Barbara Kingsolver

#96. An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Daniel Kahneman

#97. What I love more than anything is Jerry Goldsmith's 80's music and Bernard Herrmann's genre music from the 50's and 60's.

Bear McCreary

#98. Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars
invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!!

Valerie Solanas

#99. OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.

Sam Yagan

#100. Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that up. They try to outdo each other by adding another 10 ounces, so their 80 ounce steak becomes a 90 ounce steak with 10 pounds of mashed potatoes on the side.

Graham Elliot