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• I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Real, Different

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• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Negotiation, Negotiating

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.41

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• Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Secret

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

  Imelda Staunton

  Imagination, Boxes, Producers

  "I'm not in that league" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

  Frank Sinatra

  Hell Hath No Fury, No Revenge, Hell

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• Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Awareness, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.71, Penguin

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• States are not moral agents.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moral, States

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.163, The New Press

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• I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Hate, Attorney, Deals

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

  John Ashcroft

  Needs, Way, Investigation

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• It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

  Tina Weymouth

  Years, Eight, Rocks

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• In fact, I had previously helped train one of the FBI agents who searched my apartment.

  Steven Hatfill

  Fbi Agents, Facts, Apartment

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

  Mark Rydell

  Als, Knows, Hacks

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• I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Environmental Factors, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Editors, Trying, Newspaper Editors

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• I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Love, Age, Acting

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• I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

  Kirstie Alley

  Agency, Waiting, Bills

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• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  Walter Bagehot

  Ambassadors, Diplomacy, Spectacles

  Walter Bagehot (1877). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.188

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• What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Years, People, Three

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• I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

  Robert Mueller

  Fbi Agents, Squad, Police

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• It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Following Instructions, Giving

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

  Andrew Jackson

  Strong, Hands, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Struggle, Sweat

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• At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

  Peter Stone

  Friends, Night, People

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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

  Mean, Always Trying, Facts

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• I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  House, Goes On, Pay

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