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I think when he talks to people they can see he's not a slick, polished spokesperson… He's smart and well-spoken, but I think people can see he's just a regular guy.
jared fogle— Kevin Kane, Subway Spokesman, as quoted in "Subway pitchman Jared lost pounds, then anonymity" by Mitch Stacy in Associated Press report (16 November 2003)
I don’t hate her personally, though if she were enough of a person to be worth such a strong emotion I think I easily could. What I hate is what she represents: the willingness of human beings to be reduced to a slick visual package, like a new television set up-to-the-minute casing, same old works.
john brunner— the happening world (8) “Be Kind To Your Forfeited Friends”
[O]pen platforms and experimental amateurs ... eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. ... Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
cory doctorow— Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) on Boing Boing (2 April 2010)
"I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth."
björk guðmundsdóttir— From Newsweek, September 6 2004 issue, defending a song claimed to be "really hard to listen to" ("Ancestors") from her album Medúlla
To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one’s fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.
robert charles wilson— Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009, pp. 110-111)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
— Bette Davis in: Judith A. Schwartz, Richard B. Schwartz The Wounds that Heal: Heroism and Human Development. University Press of America, 23 September 2010, p.55
Call Arnold slick from Turtle Crick!
mike lange— "Mike Lange Still Going Strong in 33rd Season on Pittsburgh Penguins' Broadcasts", Associated Content. John S Chester Jr, (2009-04-03)
— Turtle Creek, PA is a suburb of Pittsburgh. Lange pronounces "Creek" in Turtle Creek as "crick" consistent with Pittsburgh's dialect of American English, which is sometimes called Pittsburghese.
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
charles krauthammer— Column, January 15, 2010, "One year out: Obama's fall" at jewishworldreview.com.
You like the Earth, Man, and you — pawing the ground — think of God, the little nursling will recognize you, and will think of you with love, because God lives even in it also. Give nourishment to the developing little creatures, either to plant or to animal, and it will develop for your sweet amazement. Give food for the wild animal starving, and it will slick to you.
tivadar csontváry kosztka— The Authority
