Agency Quotes - Page 29

• Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Artist, Creative, Stupidity

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• I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose.

  John F. Kennedy

  Health Education, Equal Pay, Years

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Struggle, Thinking, Media

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• I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from-how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

  Matthew Lesko

  Business, Thinking, Government

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• I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

  Alexis Bledel

  New York, One Day, Would Be

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• Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Exercise, Blessing, Opportunity

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• Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

  Jan Egeland

  Years, Recognition, Great Work

  "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

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• My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.

  Herman Cain

  Cutting, Years, President

  "Herman Cain: Transcript of ABC/Yahoo News Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

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• It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

  Judith Butler

  Views, Important, Different

  "Your Behavior Creates Your Gender". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

  Miley Cyrus

  Dad, Artist, Mind

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• Get inside her head. Get inside any character's head and ask what they want in this scene. And if you work from the perspective of what they want, there's not going to be any wrong answer. There's going to be some boring answers, but none of them are going to be wrong. As long as she has agency, then you're on the right track.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Character, Long, Track

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• We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Animal, Pyramids

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.461, Broadview Press

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• The one governmental agency that has no ambition.

  William O. Douglas

  Ambition, Law

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?

  Daniel Dennett

  Dream, Appreciation, Pain

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• Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be wise during intensive seasons of your life. Cherish your agency, and don’t give it away casually. Don’t compare yourself to others — nearly always this will make you despondent. Don’t accept somebody else’s interpretation of how you should be spending your time. Make the best decision you can and then evaluate it to see how it works.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Wise, Children, Emotional

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company

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• I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Advertising, Euthanasia, If I Could

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

  Gijs de Vries

  Europe, Borders, Helping

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• ...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

  Rose Bird

  Cancer, Dark, California

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• Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can't even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry. Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry, as a special interest group, is the number one contributor to politicians on Capital Hill.

  Leonard Horowitz

  Law, Vaccines, Numbers

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• The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.

  Richard Mitchell

  Children, Emotional, Government

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• 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

  America, Choices, I Can

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• I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Improvement, States, Coordination

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• The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

  Hugh Ferriss

  Powerful, Character, Space

  Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

  Robert Breault

  Century, Taxes, Economist

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• When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Order, Law

  Response to the Frost-Nixon interviews on the Watergate scandal, UPI, May 21, 1977.

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