Agents Quotes - Page 24

• England must have the mask of Christian peaceableness [peacefulness] torn publicly from her face... Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc. must inflame the whole Muslim world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers. For even if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India.

  Wilhelm II

  Christian, Lying, Turkeys

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• The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Trying, Matter

  Noam Chomsky (1996). “Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.56, Pluto Press

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• If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

  Robert Reich

  Want, Failing, Ready

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• Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Want, Available

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• Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

  Samuel Wilson

  Leader, Continuity, Protector

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• I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.

  Richard Ford

  Character, People, Want

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• My agent, Debbie, saying, 'Don't get involved in advertising.' She gets so many calls a day about me promoting a product, but I am really pleased I have never gone down that route. I don't want somebody else to make a saucepan with my name on it.

  Delia Smith

  Names, Want, Gone

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• When my agent told me he had a voice-over job I thought it was a Disney thing.

  Isaac Hayes

  Jobs, Voice, Voice Over

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• One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, Weapons, Used

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

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• God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Evil, Justice, Doe

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• A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL.

  Richard Mitchell

  Writing, Brain, Mind

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• Business is society's change agent.

  Peter Drucker

  Change Agent

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• What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

  Julian Fellowes

  Years, Giving, Auditions

  "Screenwriter Julian Fellowes Talks ROMEO & JULIET, Adapting Shakespeare, DOWNTON ABBEY Season Four (and Five), GILDED AGE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 14, 2013.

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• For those of you that have been following Ultimate Spider-Man, you know how we took that show and brought it to the next level of what Marvel Television is doing. And Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. was the next level of what we wanted to get to.

  Jeph Loeb

  Men, Spiders, Next Level

  Source: collider.com

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• I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

  Michael Pena

  Good Man, Managers, Selective

  Source: collider.com

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• My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five. A talent agent said, "You should come talk to us." I did a few things. I did an indie movie and commercials, and stuff.

  Ellar Coltrane

  Fashion, Aunt, Agency

  Source: collider.com

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• Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

  Simon Jordan

  Sports, Football, Jobs

  "Rommedahl rewards Charlton's patience" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2004.

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• The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.

  Marcus Lemonis

  Differences, Advice, Big Fish

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• Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

  Jack Welch

  Real, People, Change Agent

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• The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Home, Needs

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• We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Followers, Earth

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• Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Progress, Poverty, West

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• The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

  James Cook

  Government, Achievement, Persons

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• Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Irs, Care

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• This is our high and holy calling-to be agents of Jesus Christ, to love as He loved, to serve as He served.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Calling, Christ

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