Agency Quotes - Page 2

• Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.

  John Lydon

  Mtv, Video, Advertising

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

  Fred Allen

  Business, Confusion, Cute Funny

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• Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  Chess, Waste, Advertising

  Of chess. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

  Jerry West

  Sports, Money, Hurt

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• Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  School, Men, Practice

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.187, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Katie Price

  Sun, Week, Five

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• 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.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, Thinking, Islands

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• NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

  Bill Nye

  Jobs, Inspiration, Cutting

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• Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

  Robert Mueller

  Nsa, Information, Usa Patriot Act

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• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Events, Doe

  "Salman Rushdie says he's glad he wrote The Satanic Verses". www.mirror.co.uk. October 1, 2008.

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• The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

  Matt Taibbi

  Government, Long, Work Out

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Single, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal dance or if I would wear traditional tribal clothing for the interview. I doubt they asked the president of the United States to dress like a pilgrim for an interview.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Believe, Years, Numbers

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.72, Fulcrum Publishing

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• Experience has taught me that advertisers get the best results when they pay their agency a flat fee. It is unrealistic to expect your agency to be impartial when its vested interest lies wholly in the direction of increasing your commissionable advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Lying, Pay

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• Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.

  Richard G. Scott

  Exercise, Spirit, Lord

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• Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't rightly see how somebody who claims to have had -What'd you say? One partner?-can be welled trained." He had a point. Her brain clicked away. "I was referring to the instructional videotapes my agency has all its new employees watch." "They train you by watching videos?" His eyes narrowed reminding her of a hunter looking down a gun sight,"Now, ain't that interesting." She felt a little surge of pleasure as her child lost another few points on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Even a computer couldn't have picked a more perfect match.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Children, Eye, Gun

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• Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

  Steven Erikson

  Fire, Evil, Denial

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• You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

  Dick Cheney

  Fall, Government, Play

  Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Blessing, Promise

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• We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Europe, Unions, Way

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• I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

  André Aciman

  Needs, Pay, Borrowed Time

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.162, Macmillan

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• Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

  Michael Schudson

  Business, Long, Roles

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.108, Routledge

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• No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Business, Mouths, Advertising

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• There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly intangible piece that creative agencies hold at their heart.

  John Woodward

  Business, Heart, Ideas

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• Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

  Matt Taibbi

  Together, Glue, Financial

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