“Citizenship is not something that you can outsource! ...We've got to do the work ourselves, and you've got to know, and you've got to talk to people.”
David Cay Johnston, "It's Even Worse Than You Think" (Jan 27, 2018)
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David R. Brower, in an interview with Terkel, but much of it is sometimes misattributed to Terkel himself.
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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.
“I think if you've got something to say and you can say it with less, that's the way to go.”
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Q magazine, November 1996 issue http://covers.q4music.com/Item.aspx?pageNo=5982&year=1996
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