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Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.
Peter Drucker
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
Shepherd Mead
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Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
Alan Bullock
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A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.
Karl Pilkington
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I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.
William Bateson
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Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.
Roger Stone
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Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
Laurence J. Peter
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Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
Burt Lancaster
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If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
George Nethercutt
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You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.
Mort Sahl
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby
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My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.
Alton Brown
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
Nancy Pelosi
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Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
Anthony Sampson
22.
We always had a central committee. They were mesmerized by Eldridge Cleaver.
Huey Newton
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Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.
Jane Espenson
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
Karen McCarthy
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I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.
Walter Legge
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The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
John Ensign
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Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.
Jan Schakowsky
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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
Charles Frankel
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We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.
Dave Barry
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Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.
William Monahan
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I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.
John le Carre
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Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.
John McCain
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Living movements do not come out of committees.
John Newman
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a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
Stella Benson
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If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
Nader al-Masri
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So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.
Trey Parker
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To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer
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The American Jewish Committee has pioneered the German-Jewish-American dialogue.
Klaus Kinkel
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The Russians stole from the Democratic National Committee with hacking.
E. J. Dionne
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
Henry A. Kissinger
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A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. Pritchett
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Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.
Art Linkletter
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In every committee of twelve, one will love you and one will betray you.
Lyle E. Schaller
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Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.
Chuck Todd
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The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.
Stella Benson
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Those who express random thoughts to legislative committees are often surprised and appalled to find themselves the instigators of law.
Mark B. Cohen
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The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.
Ted Cruz