“Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.”
“The Bella Lingua” in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964).
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“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
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.

“Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.”
cited in Fox's Ann Coulter 2.0 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/29/marsden/index.html. Salon.com.
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VII The End of the World

“We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.”
As quoted in Letting Go of Debt : Growing Richer One Day at a Time (2000) by Karen Casanova, p. 17

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.