Matthew Perry (actor) (1969) American actor
Gail Pennington (May 2, 2004) "Farewell, "Friends": Sitcom's Finale on Thursday Night May Draw Up to 85 Million Viewers", The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F1.
On the end of the television program Friends – Susan Young (May 6, 2004) "Adios, amigos: ' Friends ' signs off after a decade of good times", Alameda Times-Star.
Matthew Perry (actor) (1969) American actor
Gail Pennington (May 2, 2004) "Farewell, "Friends": Sitcom's Finale on Thursday Night May Draw Up to 85 Million Viewers", The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, p. F1.
“Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.”
Rachel Marsden (1974) journalist
cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/29/marsden/index.html. Salon.com.
Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) Chancellor of West Germany 1974-1982
Interview with Helmut Schmidt on the 27. July 1972 in Bonn, partly printed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of 28. July 1972 (nr. 171), p. 8
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
There are no indications that Jefferson ever stated anything like this; slight variants of this statement seem to have become widely attributed to Jefferson only since its appearance in three books of 2004: The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey (2004) by Ken Schoolland, p. 235; Damn-ocracy — Government From Hell!: The Political, Economic And Money System (2004) by Wendall Dennis and Reason And Reality : A Novel (2004) by Mishrilal Jain, p. 232; see also info at Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Democracy_is_nothing_more_than_mob_rule. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Variant: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Thomas Cahill book How the Irish Saved Civilization
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VII The End of the World
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 40.