Agents Quotes

• Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

  John Schlesinger

  Relationship, Actors, Problem

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• If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Injustice, Break

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• The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Artist, Actors, Facts

  Interview with Richard Jobson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Hero, People

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “The Umbrella of U.S. Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy”, p.42, Seven Stories Press

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• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

  Grover Cleveland

  Offending, People, Political

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

  Grover Cleveland

  Law, People, Execution

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

  Jackie Collins

  Aquariums, Essentials, Publishers

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• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

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• I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

  Stephen Leacock

  Funny, Life, Business

  Literary Lapses (1910) "Insurance up to Date"

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• I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

  Winona Ryder

  Sides, Producers, Hanging Out

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• Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

  Samuel Smiles

  Responsibility, Men, Well Being

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.39, The Floating Press

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• The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

  Mira Sorvino

  Love You, Games, Names

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• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  Earl Weaver

  Team, Winning, Trade

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• We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

  Daniel Webster

  Power, People, Supreme

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.410

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• The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

  Emil Zatopek

  Team, Athlete, Doctors

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• We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Queens, Heart, Destiny

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.300

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• I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

  Morgan Brittany

  Bigs, Lost, Big Movie

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• Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'

  Tom Berenger

  Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Hero, Auditions, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

  Anne Archer

  Odds, Soul, Actors

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• The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

  John Culberson

  Borders, Enough, Sheriffs

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• The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, People, Sovereign

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

  Janet Reno

  Caring, Feet, Support

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• The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government... Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people...

  Bob Schaffer

  Winning, Government, Objectivity

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Football, Athlete, People

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