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Quotes About Agents

there were now two FBIs. There was the Field, with its corps of brave, hardworking agents serving in the front line against crime; and there was FBI Headquarters – the Seat of Government, as Edgar liked to call it – with its ever-expanding bureaucracy made up of men who had been office-bound for years.
~ Anthony Summers
Character in a play is that which reveals the moral purpose of the agents, ie, the sort of thing they seek or avoid, where that is not obvious— hence there is no room for character in a speech on a purely indifferent subject.
~ Aristotle
The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti – the KGB – trains a thousand agents at a time.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Agents she'd named Brylcreem and Cancer Man
~ Sonny Whitelaw
Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.
~ John Schlesinger
They sure did make it clear they believed Aevers was responsible. Maybe not directly, but one of his agents. Unfortunately, that leads to the suggestion that Aevers was some sort of mastermind. A man with a whole crew of dissidents willing to do crazy shit for his hatred and prejudice.
~ John Walker
People felt a sense of betrayal in the daily evidence of the gulf between what Christ's agents were supposed to be and what they had become.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The idea is to recruit in a closed environment, rather than listening to the press or getting distracted by conflicting agents' claims. We try and make cold decisions based on information.
~ Ed Woodward
Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.
~ Joel Embiid
I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
Resettlement agents are special people," Sanja says, "and organizations that do this type of work should be celebrated more than they are.
~ George W. Bush
When you are an actor or trying to be a working actor in L.A., most people have commercial agents, and then they have legitimate agents, and you just end up going on a thousand auditions.
~ Joel McHale
We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
~ John Sweeney
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.
~ Steven Seagal
In recounting the saga of Sasha Orlov, Peter Sichel gave a weary sigh. "It was a classic example of case officers falling in love with their agents. I tried to tell them they were being played. Unfortunately, in this case they refused to listen." But of course, everything in the intelligence shadow world can be interpreted from at least two different angles, because everything has the potential of being the precise opposite of what it first appears.
~ Scott Anderson
I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.
~ Clark Gregg
The art of a great painting is not in any one idea, nor in a multitude of separate tricks for placing all those pigment spots, but in the great network of relationships among its parts. Similarly, the agents, raw, that make our minds are by themselves as valueless as aimless, scattered daubs of paint. What counts is what we make of them.
~ Marvin Minsky
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books - they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied form of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.
~ Arthur Koestler
Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.
~ Stephen Fry
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.
~ Stephen King
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
~ Eric Hoffer
for themselves. User-centered innovation processes offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual
~ Eric von Hippel
than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual users do not
~ Eric von Hippel