Top 360 Agency Quotes

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

We couldn’t afford to move, so we decided to start up a model agency.

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.

We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

It is very important that the director of the Central Intelligence Agency adhere to the same classification guidelines that all employees must adhere to because there are very good reason for those classification guidelines.

The malfeasance and misjudgments by our corporate, financial and government leaders, declining ethical standards, and the failure of our new agency society reflect a failure of capitalism.

After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.

We have our own agency; we should be judged by our own work.

People and organizations should not be silenced because of their political beliefs, especially by a government agency.

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.

Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.

The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty.

Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.

Every player looks forward to free agency.

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don’t understand the deal you’re making, don’t make it.

I love wide and long pieces, but my agency hates it when I wear wide pants because they drown me.

Anyone who’s read my ‘Terror in the Skies’ series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn’t that hot either!

There was a model in my high school. She was like, ‘You’re so pretty. You should come see my agency’.

I was into theatre in school and college with theatre personality Barry John, who has also trained Shah Rukh Khan. Then I joined the Elite modeling agency – they have different courses including grooming, modeling and theatre workshop. I was selected for modeling.

It’s tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.

Of course, when you’re a parent, that’s your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some.

My father started out as a musician but he had a salary from a day job working as a health inspector for the government. When he left to set up his own entertainment agency his income became more uncertain.

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.

From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.

Being on a K-pop label and agency, everything’s taken care of for you. The music is set up for you. Your food, manager, practice room, recording studios – all these things are in the palm of your hand. However, you know the compromise of what you can actually do or say.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

I believe at the heart of any revolution for social justice and human dignity are consent and agency, the unequivocal belief that I own my body – not the state, not the church/mosque/temple, not the street and not the family.

I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.

Frankly, we should have an ARPA-O, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for oceans research, to match DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for energy. And we should have an Oceans and Coasts Fund to match the upland- and freshwater-directed Land and Water Conservation Fund.

I can’t help thinking if she – the director of a government agency – is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from – how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

SERE is a classified program, but every person informed of it is ‘read in’ to the details of the program. Even the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which administers SERE, starts its PowerPoint presentation with a slide outlining the agency’s origins.

Free agency is free agency. I love when NBA players get paid.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

No NSA director did as much damage to the agency as Gen. Michael V. Hayden.

It takes good clients to make a good advertising agency. Regardless of how much talent an ad agency may have, it is ineffective without good products and services to advertise.

We all exercise agency in the choices we make.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

We signed up my little girl to a modelling agency. This week she was doing a TV commercial for Aldi. She’s done JD, Next, Speedos. She enjoys it.

Giving employees agency over their workspace encourages them to think carefully about the conditions in which they work best, and it gives them the tools to forge that environment.

I think what ‘Four More Shots’ wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the agency. None of the characters are perfect. They have their flaws.

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy.

I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, ‘Sure.’

I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn’t have agency towards that. Being ‘female’ meant I couldn’t be that – I couldn’t be angry, loud, sullen. Being sad meant I was weak.

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company – from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.

I got more whistleblowers from the Secret Service than I do anywhere else. And if you look at that department and agency, it’s the one place you can never, ever, ever make a mistake – ever.

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird – we’ve done ‘Shoot The Messenger,’ ‘Five Days,’ ‘The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,’ ‘Born Equal’ and now ‘Small Island’ – was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

When the FOIA law was first being discussed, every federal agency opposed it.

I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.