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Agents Quotes

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Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
Charles Grandison Finney

Unless one's volition is unfettered, humanity lacks autonomy; and if no independence exists, then one cannot act morally or possess moral character.
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2.
I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to high school and started playing with my band.
Jason Schwartzman

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Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.
Shelby Steele

4.
I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.
Kathie Lee Gifford

5.
You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
Anthony Hopkins

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The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.
Paul Blobel

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Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
Bruce D. Perry

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All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.
Eugene Burger

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How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.
Sam Harris

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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
Francesca Annis

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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
Karl Marlantes

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The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.
Blake Lively

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There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.
Erving Goffman

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When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
Joe Pantoliano

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Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us
Edward Bach

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I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
Steve Kanaly

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Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.
Stephen Fry

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The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren

19.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
Eckhart Tolle

20.
The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'
Marie-Antoine Careme

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Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
Pierre Bourdieu

22.
I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
Mary Lou Williams

23.
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
Andrew Jackson

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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
Imran Khan

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We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

26.
... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.
Marie-Antoine Careme

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot
Donnie Wahlberg

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I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
Giacomo Casanova

30.
Some of my best friends are FBI agents.
Jeff Sessions

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You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.
Heath Ledger

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The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.
Kenneth Burke

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I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.
Jean Giraudoux

34.
Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.
John Agar

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Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.
Edmund Burke

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Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Savior’s face. Listen intently and you will hear his voice. Walk gently among them; his footprints are all around you. Embrace them, for you are embracing him. Respect them, because they are sometimes God’s agents – exactly the kind of instruments he needs. At such times, only a child will do.
Wess Stafford

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Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
Jacques Ellul

38.
I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
Radha Mitchell

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All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.
Robert Mueller

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Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.
Pope Francis

41.
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.
Helena Bonham Carter

42.
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
Ramakrishna

43.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Stephen Jay Gould

44.
All women are natural born espionage agents.
Eddie Cantor

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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

46.
My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."
Sally Field

47.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

48.
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
David Buss

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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.
Thorstein Veblen

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The Church is where it is today because it has decided that the advertising agents know better than the Holy Spirit of God.
Alistair Begg