Quotes About Agency

There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country.

The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

I was modeling while I was in university and my agency said, 'There's this fashion campaign, can you go?' And I didn't want to; I told him I wanted to focus on my acting, but I ended up going, kind of dragging my feet, and it turns out, the casting director for it was the casting director for Lars von Trier's new movie.

I don't do nudes. I don't do semi-nudes. I don't do cigarette shots. It took me a long time in the business to realize I didn't have to do everything people told me I should if I wanted a career.

I'm actually begging my agency president to change my car.

Use well thy freedom.

he was a lonely straight male, and a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: To feel as if he couldn't survive without a woman made a man feel weak; And yet, without a woman in his life, a man lost the sense of agency and difference that, for better or worse, was the foundation of his manhood.

but he was a lonely straight male, and a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: ¶ To feel as if he couldn't survive without a woman made a man feel weak; ¶ And yet, without a woman in his life, a man lost the sense of agency and difference that, for better or worse, was the foundation of his manhood.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter," I told her, and she said, "Then I would never utter another word again." "You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do." "Then I would never do anything again.

La libertad consiste en ser capaz de elegir entre lo que es posible para mí y hacerme responsable de mi elección.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

Political choice, ideology and agency are everywhere across this narrative with highly consequential results, not merely as disturbing factors but as vital reactions to the huge volatility and contingency generated by the malfunctioning of the giant "systems" and "machines" and apparatuses of financial engineering.

Jack didn't happen to me: I happened to Jack.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

To say that there is patriarchy in Arab culture is not denying women agency.

Garnishments tend to happen when people hide from their debts and stop making even minimum payments. Eventually, creditors sell the debt to a collection agency.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Polly Young-Eisendrath

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.