Agency Quotes - Page 24

• As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted rapprochement with the Red Chinese. All of this resulted in liberals ... despising him even more!

  Ann Coulter

  Race, Chinese, Environmental

  "'Scratch-Off' Miers" by Ann Coulter, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 27, 2005.

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• After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

  Colleen Haskell

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

  Angie Everhart

  Mother, Models

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• There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Thinking, People, Actors

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• Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

  Paul Davies

  Motivation, Years, Space

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Brain, May, Assistants

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• The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.

  George Soros

  Creating, Risk, Facts

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• Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising agencies are stabbing in the dark much more than they are practicing precision microsurgery on the public consciousness.

  Michael Schudson

  Powerful, Dark, Advertising

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.13, Routledge

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• Most agencies run scared, most of the time. . . .Frightened people are powerless to produce good advertising. . . . If I were aclient, I would do everything in my power to emancipate my agencies from fear, even to the extent of giving them long-term contracts.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Long, People

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• Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

  Melissa Bean

  Stars, Home, Average

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• The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Intelligent, People, Drug

  Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

  Sitting Bull

  Dog, Warrior, White

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.

  William H. Prescott

  Men, Law, Temptation

  William H. Prescott (2005). “The Conquests of Mexico And Peru”, p.819, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I know that God loves us. He allows us to exercise our moral agency even when we misuse it. He permits us to make our own decisions. Christ cannot help us if we do not trust Him; He cannot teach us if we do not serve Him. He will not force us to do what's right, but He will show us the way only when we decide to serve Him. Certainly, for us to serve in His kingdom, Christ requires that we experience a change of thought and attitude.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Attitude, Exercise, Decision

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• We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Moral, Influence, Submit

  "Finding Safety in Counsel". Henry B. Eyring's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 1997.

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• Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Keys, Hands, Use

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• No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Blessing, Yield

  "To Help a Loved One in Need" by Richard G. Scott, www.lds.org. May 1988.

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• Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

  Jan Brewer

  Lying, Law, Desert

  "Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona". Article by Dana Milbank, www.washingtonpost.com. July 11, 2010.

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• A failure to learn about Satan's plan for man here on earth would be fatal to the full exercise of free agency. The reason for this lies in the fact that . . . free agency is the opportunity to choose between good and evil. To intelligently make such a choice one must understand the alternatives-both of them. To the extent one is ignorant of these alternatives, to that same extent he has not made a complete choice. Until a person understands Satan's plan, he can never be certain he does not believe in it and is not helping to carry it out.

  H. Verlan Andersen

  Lying, Believe, Exercise

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• These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Events, Photographer, Influence

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• Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

  Rene Descartes

  Powerful, Knowledge, Math

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of those who use or misuse it. For the established agencies of exploitation it conjures up a feeling of blood stained horror. To the revolutionaries it is a sacred phrase.

  Bhagat Singh

  Blood, Feelings, Phrases

  Bhagat Singh, Bhagat (2010). “WOF : Bhagat Singh”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Life, Children, Addiction

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• Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Life, Prayer, Desire

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• I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Believe

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks At Human Rights Camapign Dinner, www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2009.

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