Committees Quotes - Page 14

• We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

  Narendra Modi

  Commitment, India, Needs

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• Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Degrees, Influence, Figures

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• For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best interests of his constituents and our country. From the committee room to the Senate chamber, Senator Specter offered a voice of reason and passion in every debate - always willing to reach across the aisle and work across party lines to get the job done, regardless of political gamesmanship or gain.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Determination, Jobs

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• A committee of three gets things done if two dont show up.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Two, Three, Done

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• The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

  Aleister Crowley

  Privilege, Serious, Savages

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• Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

  Hilary Mantel

  Mean, Dark, White

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• Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Decision, Needs

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Songs of Distant Earth”, p.65, RosettaBooks

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• My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

  Jung Chang

  Mother, Father, Party

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• Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

  William Monahan

  Film, Blind

  Source: collider.com

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• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Air, People

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• Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.

  Will Rogers

  Mind, Looks, Statistics

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

  Gordon R. Dickson

  Running, Sweet, Horse

  Gordon R. Dickson (1978). “The Far Call”

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• The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Politics, Way

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• Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.

  Ben Bernanke

  Moving, Turkeys, Want

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• I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

  Bill Vaughan

  Taken, Thinking, Data

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• What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

  George Steiner

  Book, Worthwhile, Has Beens

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.

  Alex Johnston

  Country, Smart, Issues

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• Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Clubs, Mona Lisa, Conferences

  1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.

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• Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish 'The Magnificent Ambersons'] I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort.

  Orson Welles

  Confused, Editing, Effort

  "This is Orson Welles". Book by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, 1992.

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• It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.

  Roger Ebert

  Crush, Girl, Teenage

  Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I hold no brief for Communists, but I believe in and will defend their right to act independently within the law. I question whether members of the committee are interested in defending our form of government or whether they are attempting to suppress political opinion at odds with their own.

  Gregory Peck

  Believe, Political Opinions, Odds

  "Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life". Book by Lynn Haney, p. 167, 2003.

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• But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Mcclellan, Might, Whiskey

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 121), 1975.

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• I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

  David Brin

  Hate, Believe, Hard Work

  "David Brin: Dialog With the Future". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1997.

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• He [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.

  Miriam Makeba

  Teacher, Advice, Trying

  "The long goodbye". Interview with Robin Denselow, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of fact, this condition does not come under my special medical interests or I would have had it solved long ago. … The condition has its compensations: one is not yanked from interesting work to go to the jungles of Burma ... one avoids all kinds of deadly committee meetings, etc.

  Fuller Albright

  Past, Long Ago, Years

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