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Agency
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Bad
Which
I'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
- Aleksandar Hemon
May
Been
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
- Alexander Hamilton
Give
Rather
I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.
- Alexandra Kleeman
Affordable
Largest
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
- Alphonso Jackson
New
Subjects
As a creative agency, the film industry is thinking great subjects, presenting them wonderfully well, and giving opportunity to new faces each day.
- Amitabh Bachchan
United States
South
As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.
- Ann Coulter
Pretty
Like
There was a model in my high school. She was like, 'You're so pretty. You should come see my agency'.
- Anna Ewers
Will
Like
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.
- Anthony Browne
Happen
Free Agency
My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.
- Arthur Blank
Memory
Goal
You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'
- Arthur Godfrey
Drinking
Almost
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
- Charles Duhigg
London
Shared
I left school on a wet Thursday afternoon, found a room in a shared house in North London, and started my first job on the following Monday as a courier for an advertising agency.
- Christopher Fowler
Shadow
Reasons
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.
- Dan Brown
Happy
Woman
I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.
- Daniella Alonso
Almost
Sure
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
- David Ogilvy
Star
Desperate
The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.
- David Prowse
Agent
William
I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.
- Debbie Reynolds
Year
Spent
In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
- Joanna Scott
Leaders
Networks
The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks.
- Joby Warrick
Law
Through
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
- John Chrysostom
By The Time
Before
My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.
- John G. Avildsen
Business
Last
The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.
- Johnny Weissmuller
Book
Caribbean
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
- Joseph Force Crater
Mistake
Crusade
People often mistake our mission at The Sound Agency for a crusade for silence, but actually, silence is in many ways just as bad as too much noise.
- Julian Treasure
Law
Law Enforcement
The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
- Hank Johnson
Hockey
Everybody
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
- Bill Goldberg
Learn
Modeling
I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.
- Cameron Dallas
Need
Dire
There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.
- Carol Alt
Kind
Free Agency
The timeline is kind of coming to an end as far as leading up to free agency.
- Jake Arrieta
Roof
Like
Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.
- Caskie Stinnett
Principle
Which
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
- James F. Cooper
Espionage
About
When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.
- James Sanborn
Environmental
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
- Jane D. Hull
Over
Discovered
I was actually discovered while at a showroom appointment and was immediately sent over to an agency in L.A. I was about 15 years old at that time.
- Jasmine Tookes
Play
Free Agency
I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.
- Jason Kidd
Veterans
Ensure
In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.
- Doc Hastings
Reason
Processes
I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious.
- Jay Carney
Business
Very
The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.
- Donny Deutsch
Most
Valuable Asset
Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.
- Jef I. Richards
Purpose
Social
I am the CEO and co-founder of Purpose - a social movement incubator and agency. We work on ways to help millions of people combine their power as citizens, consumers and cultural agents.
- Jeremy Heimans
Solutions
Been
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.
- Edward Snowden
Been
Valued
The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
- Karen Mills
Always
Measuring
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
- Karl Lehmann
Grows
Trading
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
- Eric Cantor
Gestapo
Founded
In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political opposition and so forth. Brand-new as of April 1933.
- Erik Larson
Manpower
Worked
I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.
- Kevin Nealon
Waiting
Mr
I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.
- Kirstie Alley
Rivers
Opposed
There are several issues why we are opposed to bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam agency region, like environmental pollution, threat to rivers, and tourism.
- Kishore Chandra Deo
Principle
Relating
One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.
- L. Lionel Kendrick
Business
Commission
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
- Fred Allen
Mom
Our
In high school, my mom's friend was a location scout, and there was a shoot at our house. I came home from school, and the photographer said, 'You should call my friend at this agency.'
- Laura Harrier
Think
Some
Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.
- Lauren Graham
Product
Needs
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
- Leo Burnett
Grow
One-Third
The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
- Gary Miller
American
Doing
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
- Leon Panetta
Fired
Ad
Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.
- Gene Ween
Germany
Been
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
- George J. Mitchell
More
Everyone
Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.
- George Lois
Private
Worked
I worked for a private investigative agency briefly. I rarely had the opportunity to snoop.
- Lisa Lutz
Famous
Ad
In 1997, I was working with Greg Wilson of Red Ball Tiger, our ad agency at the time, when he came up with an addition to the famous slogan 'I guarantee it' that I was known for saying.
- George Zimmer
Country
Most
We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country.
- Louis Freeh
Actress
Booking
My mom was an actress, so I got with her boutique agency back in 2001 and started booking a few commercials. She's like my co-manager.
- Tequan Richmond
Modeling
New
I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.
- Teri Polo
Think
Career
I've learned that it's important to listen to employees at all levels, to engage them, to empower them. Whether you're a first-line supervisor or the head of an entire agency, you should be asking career staffers, 'What do you think?'
- Thomas E. Perez
NASA
See
Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.
- Gregory Benford
Politics
Very
I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.
- Sarah Gavron
Childhood
Though
'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
- Rae Carson
Clients
Ad
It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.
- Morris Hite
Better
Executives
No agency is better than its account executives.
- Morris Hite
Development
Very
I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.
- Moshe Safdie
Supposedly
Advisory
Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
- Ralph Hall
Will
Free Agency
You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.
- Sean Covey
Crisis
Lot
A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
- Natalie Jeremijenko
Side
Pageant
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
- Maria Menounos
Business
Though
We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!
- Richard Curtis
Other
Ideals
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
- Richard Le Gallienne
Which
Cases
Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.
- Richard M. Helms
More
Investigations
No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
- Tucker Carlson
Director
Been
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
- Richard Perle
Becoming
Agent
I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.
- Rila Fukushima
Like
Effectively
I want the USDA to look like America, and I want it to be the best, most effectively managed agency in the U.S. That starts with good people.
- Sonny Perdue
View
For The People
I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
- P. Chidambaram
Pirate
Ether
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.
- Robert Kurson
Cleaning
Vet
I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
- Patrick Whitesell
Been
Aroused
The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty.
- Robert Zubrin
Making
Using
For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
- Melanne Verveer
Drones
Affecting
It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.
- Merrick Garland
Government
Never
We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.
- Roger Ver
Director
Contractor
As director of CIA, I was responsible for everything done in the agency's name, and it didn't matter whether that was done by an agency employee, a government contractor, a liaison service on our behalf, or a source on our behalf.
- Michael Hayden
Director
Will
With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.
- Ronald Kessler
Peace
Never
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
- William McKinley
Through
Studios
When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.
- Michael Ovitz
Individual
More
The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.
- Michael Scheuer
News
Amazement
When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.
- Wolf Blitzer
Never
Unless
I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'.
- Yoweri Museveni
Okay
Clients
When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
- Yves Behar
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