John Steinbeck Quotes

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

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

I'm from Long Island, which is a very cookie-cutter place.

The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

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

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

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

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

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

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

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

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

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.

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.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

If everything is the same, nothing is special.

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.'

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts - everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.

I feel like there's so many places to shop today that just feel like an Excel spreadsheet put between four walls.