Agents Quotes - Page 20

• The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, Stress, Cia Agents

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• Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Men, Heaven, Tasks

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• I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

  Irving Paul Lazar

  Actors, Literary Agents

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• But especially if you have the wrong people within your circle. Truthfully, at the end of the day, no one cares about you in this business whether they are your agent or your manager or your publicist.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Circles, People, The End Of The Day

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• Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

  Tony Campolo

  Race, Creation, Rescue

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• First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

  Kathryn Schulz

  Philosophy, Mean, Reality

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• I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

  Jimmy Buffett

  Alcohol, Drug, Mind

  Source: benignhumor.wordpress.com

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• When I read [the script] and saw that it was my fanboy wet dream of an Avengers script and that [Agent] Coulson was a big part of it, that was the great day for me. I just drove around the streets with the script in the other seat, giggling.

  Joss Whedon

  Dream, Great Day, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

  Immanuel Kant

  Action, Goodness, Motive

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• The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.

  Rod Steiger

  Jobs, Winning, Thank God

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• Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Men, Independence

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• Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

  Roy Hattersley

  Country, Government, People

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• The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.

  Roger Cohen

  Spring, Quality, Overcoming

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• But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.

  Avicenna

  Strong, Taken, Character

  Avicenna, Oskar Cameron Gruner (1984). “The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna”

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• I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: "I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent." That makes me just die inside.

  Nina Conti

  Names, Sitting Down, Cameras

  "Nina Conti: 'I feel it's not in my film how much I miss Ken'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2012.

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• The initiation of the fermentation process does not require so complicated an apparatus as is represented by the living cell. The agent responsible for the fermenting action of the press juice is rather to be regarded as a dissolved substance, doubtless a protein; this will be denoted zymase.

  Eduard Buchner

  Cells, Doe, Juice

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• I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake.com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend.

  Rainn Wilson

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Book

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

  Jane Harman

  Men, Fbi Agents, Cia Agents

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• Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Book, People

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• The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Future, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1175, Delphi Classics

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• He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.

  Roger Clemens

  Couple, Nice, Team

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• I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Done, Certain, Gods Will

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) (1967). “The white revolution [of Iran]”

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• No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Mistake

  Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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• I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Family, Long, Social

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• Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Wisdom, May, Affair

  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1860). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”

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