Cenk Uygur Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

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.

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

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 we all dress alike, we might as well all work in cubicles.

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

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

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

Efficiency obliterates identity

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

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

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.

Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.

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.

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.

Perfection is really boring!