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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

Topics: Always Been Committee Eats Feeling Good Had Happened Left Never Would

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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

Topics: Almost City Committee Committees Dealing Every Hundred Just Just One Nothing Other Problem Problems Three Two

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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

Topics: Best Cells Combinations Committee Connection Encounters Flexible Herself Mainly Millions Nature Never Occurs Possible Result Smallest Units Which World

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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

Topics: Cannot Charge Choices Clean Committee Creative Faith Got Make Network One Or Two People Right Simply Sitcom Some Studio Those Two Voices Will Work You

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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.

~Anatoly Chubais

Topics: Adopted Became Chairman Committee Each Immediately Officially Permitted Plan Scholars Should University Young

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In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

~Andy Serkis

Topics: Animated Arc Breathing Character Committee Creating Decision Decisions Emotional Like Living Making Making Decisions Movie Page Part People Responsible Role Small Small Part Whole You

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In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.

~Andy Serkis

Topics: Actor Animators Author Capture Committee People Performance Role Roles Significant Thing Think Understand I Think

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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

Topics: Anybody Chair Committee May Me Much Said Somebody Think Want Would You

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I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.

~Angus King

Topics: Bill Boss Committee Had Kennedy Labor Old Public Senate Ted Welfare Worked 1970S

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If it's necessary to join a caucus and get a committee assignment, I'll do it.

~Angus King

Topics: Assignment Caucus Committee Get Join Necessary

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