If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
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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.
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
quote by Robert Welch
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The Committee On Public Morals
The Senate met in Sacramento city;
On public morals it had no committee
Though greatly these abounded. Soon the quiet
Was broken by the Senators in riot.
Now, at the end of their contagious quarrels,
There's a committee but no public morals.
poem by Ambrose Bierce
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When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.
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Job Interview
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
DON JUAN, III, 63-4
"Where do you see yourself five years from now?"
the eldest male member (or is "male member"
a redundancy?) of the committee
asked me. "Not here," I thought. A good thing I
speak fluent Fog. I craved that job like some
unappeasable, taunting woman.
What did Byron's friend Hobhouse say after
the wedding? "I felt as if I had buried
a friend." Each day I had that job I felt
the slack leash at my throat and thought what was
its other trick. Better to scorn the job than ask
what I had ever seen in it or think
what pious muck I'd ladled over
the committee. If they believed me, they
deserved me. As luck would have it, the job
lasted me almost but not quite five years.
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poem by William Matthews
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The world is proof that God is a committee.
quote by Bob Stokes
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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
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A committee is an animal with four back legs.
quote by John le Carre
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A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
quote by Nancy Pelosi
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A camel is a horse designed by committee.
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The optimum committee has no members.
quote by Norman Ralph Augustine
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I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
quote by Betty Hill
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
quote by Barnett Cocks (1907)
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If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.
quote by H. Ross Perot
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A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
quote by Milton Berle
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
quote by Fletcher Knebel
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
quote by Frank Moore Colby
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