Matthew Perry (actor) (1969) American actor
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.
cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/29/marsden/index.html. Salon.com.
Matthew Perry (actor) (1969) American actor
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.
“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.
“We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.”
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) Joyce Brothers
As quoted in Letting Go of Debt : Growing Richer One Day at a Time (2000) by Karen Casanova, p. 17
“Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”
John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer
“The Bella Lingua” in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964).
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
“100 percent of me is nothing compared to one percent of the whole team.”
Eliud Kipchoge (1984) Kenyan long-distance runner
Eliud Kipchoge (2019) cited in: " Kenya: Eliud Kipchoge's Huge Sacrifice for Humanity https://allafrica.com/stories/201908280231.html" in Daily Nation, 27 August 2019.
Ricardo Semler (1959) Brazilian businessman
Strategy+business: "Ricardo Semler Won't Take Control" https://www.strategy-business.com/article/05408?gko=3291c (29 November 2005)
“I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
On the Oprah Winfrey Show http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/19/ip.00.html (20 September 2000). <br class="br">2000s, 2000
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Matsuo Bashō, Collected Haiku Theory, eds. T. Komiya & S. Yokozawa, Iwanami, 1951 (Unknown translator)
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