Agents Quotes

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

  Walter Jon Williams

  Editors, Trying, Newspaper Editors

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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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• If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Writing, Numbers

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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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• The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Long, Forever

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Business, Party, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.

  Raymond Chandler

  Funny, Men, People

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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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• 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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• 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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