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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Charles Kettering
You
World
Idea
Get
Any
Committee
Want
Working
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
Wisdom
Morning
Experience
Problem
Difficult
Resolved
Committee
Common
After
Worked
Night
Sleep
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
People
Nothing
Group
Meet
Individually
Committee
Done
Decide
Who
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen
Group
Unnecessary
Unprepared
Unwilling
Committee
Appointed
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
Meetings
Worst
About
Football
America
Committee
Things
Violence
Two
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
People
Somebody
Become
Wildly
Immediately
Minute
Idiots
Brain
Committee
Committees
Turn
Suffer
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.
Anita Hill
Thomas
Relevant
Seek
Only
Vendetta
Provide
Personal
Committee
May
Regard
Information
Which
Against
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
F. Lee Bailey
Today
You
Rights
Seriously
Congress
Say
Out
Could
Through
Get
Any
Committee
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Even
During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
Kate Smith
God
National
Before
Presidential
Bless
Sing
Democratic
God Bless
America
Committee
Request
Received
Speeches
Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.
Roger Stone
Statue
Nobody
Built
Committee
Ever
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
Sam Ervin
Home
Watergate
Citizen
Made
National
Every
Broke
Allegations
Date
True
Headquarters
Democratic
Were
Effect
Committee
Burglar
Breaking
Then
Who
Many
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Alec Issigonis
Design
Horse
Camel
Committee
Designed
As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.
Maxine Waters
Life
You
Quality
Women
Programs
Responsible
Determine
Know
Quality Of Life
Families
Committee
Many
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Time
You
Party
Society
Progressive
Members
Kind
Restless
Fed
Fed Up
Part
Doctrines
Go
Were
West
Up
Very
Committee
Where
Wanted
Really
Communist
Who
I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
Nancy Pelosi
Will
Making
Committee
Appointments
Bipartisan
When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not.
Robert Kennedy
Me
Respect
Important
Increased
Our
Those
Some
About
Counsel
Developed
Leads
Look
Also
Courageous
Came
Caused
Senate
Did
Committee
Which
Newspapers
Us
Assisted
Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.
Victoria Moran
You
Confused
Relax
Say
Neighborhood
Trillion
Something
Consulting
Undecided
Call
Quietly
Committee
Quite
Cells
Ask
Body
Your
Your Body
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
Abraham Robinson
Education
College
Framework
System
Puts
Emphasis
Idea
Supports
Particular
California
Within
Campus
Committee
Which
Should
University
University Of California
I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
Alber Elbaz
Think
Out
Selective
Know
Makers
Hearing
Committee
Listen
Maybe
Where
Want
Decide
Formula
Disorder
Switzerland
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.
Alexander Dubcek
Me
First
Party
Control
Members
Taken
Forces
Were
Soviet
Committee
Central
Who
Moments
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
Alvar Aalto
Problem
Problems
Three
Nothing
Every
Other
Hundred
City
Almost
Dealing
Committee
Committees
Just
Just One
Two
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.
Alvar Aalto
Best
Nature
World
Result
Herself
Possible
Never
Mainly
Smallest
Combinations
Occurs
Encounters
Committee
Cells
Which
Flexible
Connection
Units
Millions
You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Work
Faith
You
Creative
People
Will
Those
Charge
One Or Two
Some
Network
Clean
Voices
Studio
Simply
Make
Got
Sitcom
Committee
Cannot
Choices
Right
Two
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.
Anatoly Chubais
Young
Immediately
Adopted
Scholars
Became
Permitted
Officially
Committee
Plan
Should
Each
Chairman
University
Deep learning is a very capital-intensive area, and it's rare to find a company with both the necessary resources and a company structure where things can get done without having to pass through too many channels and committee meetings.
Andrew Ng
Learning
Rare
Too
Channels
Meetings
Resources
Find
Structure
Having
Both
Area
Through
Without
Pass
Very
Get
Committee
Done
Where
Deep
Many
Company
Things
Necessary
Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.
Angus King
Me
You
Somebody
Think
Would
Said
Committee
May
Anybody
Want
Much
Chair
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