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• Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, Thinking, Islands

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• NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

  Bill Nye

  Jobs, Inspiration, Cutting

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• Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

  Robert Mueller

  Nsa, Information, Usa Patriot Act

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• Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Government, Healthy, Politics

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• We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

  Christopher Meloni

  People, Way, Freak

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• When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

  Katie Price

  Sun, Week, Five

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Single, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

  James Surowiecki

  Lions, Clients, Advertising

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• A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

  James Surowiecki

  Simple, Lessons, Finance

  "Caveat Mortgagor". www.newyorker.com. July 6 & 13, 2009.

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• 'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.

  Jordin Sparks

  Thinking, Would Be, Lap

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• 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

  Senior, Information, Administrators

  "NSA Leaker Edward Snowden in His Own Words: 'You're Being Watched"'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.truth-out.org. July 04, 2013.

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• I had to wear a fat suit to play Mma Ramotswe in 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.' She's described as being like a small elephant, but she loves her body and size. When we were filming in Africa, it was 110F. It was torturous. I drank a lot of water and ate cucumbers all the time, and underneath the fat suit I shed pounds - I couldn't help it.

  Jill Scott

  Play, Mma, Elephants

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jill Scott, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

  Matt Taibbi

  Together, Glue, Financial

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• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Events, Doe

  "Salman Rushdie says he's glad he wrote The Satanic Verses". www.mirror.co.uk. October 1, 2008.

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• The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Long, Work Out

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• Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

  Chris Chocola

  Government, Years, Abuse

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• You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.

  Diana Rowland

  Smart, Purpose, Exam

  Diana Rowland (2009). “Mark of the Demon”, p.321, Bantam

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• This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

  Dan Brown

  Databases, Attempting, Knows

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• Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch." "They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting." She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Children, Eye, Gun

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• Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  School, Men, Practice

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.187, GENERAL PRESS

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• A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal dance or if I would wear traditional tribal clothing for the interview. I doubt they asked the president of the United States to dress like a pilgrim for an interview.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Believe, Years, Numbers

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.72, Fulcrum Publishing

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• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Europe, Unions, Way

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• I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

  André Aciman

  Needs, Pay, Borrowed Time

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

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• We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

  Howard Draft

  Business, Successful, People

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• You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

  Dick Cheney

  Fall, Government, Play

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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