Will Rogers Quotes

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

I do everything that everybody else does.

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

So many people want to have this typical look and this typical everything and it's all the same everywhere.

Nobody's unique. Everybody copies off of each other. Everybody wears the same type of stuff. Nobody's an individual anymore.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.

Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.