Agency Quotes - Page 21

• We have President-elect [Donald] Trump out there calling the CIA assessment that Russia was trying to help elect him ridiculous. He also questions - says he doesn't believe the earlier findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to get involved in our elections.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Believe, Russia, Assessment

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Opportunity, Thinking, Play

  Source: deadline.com

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• My advice to aspriring models is less is more, try not to do crazy hair and makeup, keep it simple but beautiful when you're trying to find an agency and get started.

  Liris Crosse

  Beautiful, Crazy, Makeup

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

  David Ogilvy

  Successful, Weekend, Night

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• The only thing I wanted in free agency was an opportunity to continue to chase that dream and continue to win championships.?

  Tyson Chandler

  Dream, Winning, Opportunity

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• Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

  Derrick Jensen

  Mean, Longing, Conditions

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.295, Seven Stories Press

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• Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.

  Gary North

  Gun, Government, Hands

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• Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.

  Edward Boches

  Ads, Traditional, Unlearn

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• ...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.

  Mark Doty

  Art, Moving, May

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• In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

  Loretta Young

  Television, Mediums, Performances

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• Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

  Ellen G. White

  Pride, Blessing, Vanity

  "Review & Herald Articles, Book I of IV".

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• In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

  Allen West

  Real, Volunteer, Adoption

  "CPAC Highlights: Rubio and West". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

  Andrew Weil

  Priorities, Citizens, Disease

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Math, Technology

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• The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.

  Fred Thompson

  Sight, Common Sense, Regulation

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• The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

  Lewis Thomas

  Past, Interesting, Mind

  "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.

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• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Bankers, Lines, Necks

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• The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.

  Hugh Miller

  Rocks, Sea, Earth

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.297

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• The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington...are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases...that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs... It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective...We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Government, Hands

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• The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

  Bob McDonnell

  Employment, Prevention, Politics

  Bob McDonnell RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not. I've heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

  Joni Ernst

  Jobs, Believe, Men

  "Braley, Ernst tear into each other" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Two, Moral

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• Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Church, Use

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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Mean, Competition, Progress

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• When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

  Aldrich Ames

  Strength, Country, Strong

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