The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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.
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.
It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.
I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.
The words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect by Washington. . . are to be accepted as real, and not as empty phrases. . . that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, that the Constitution is theirs, that the courts are theirs, that all the government agents and agencies are theirs. . . It is for the people themselves finally to decide all questions of public policy and to have their decision made effective. . . We here, in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world.
The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.
I would never do a printed memoir. I've been asked to publish a memoir from years by different publishers and literary agents. I think it wouldn't be great for me because all I'd really want to talk about it music and I'd rather just play it.
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.
But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success, and I was thinking yesterday, what I'd like to do is maybe start to compile a list of the best 200 to 500 capacity rooms around the world and just start going to them again and again and again.
I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway. ' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that. '
Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.
Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change. ' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change --I want to continue as president. ' Every candidate has got to say 'change. ' That's what the American people expect.
I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.
Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.