#agency

No agency is better than its account executives. ↗

— Morris Hite

#agency #better #executives #than

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#been #border #borders #cooperate #created

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium. ↗

— Loretta Young

#called #medium #new #new thing #opposed

You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.' ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#agency #being #dream #embracing #family

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. ↗

— Colleen Haskell

#ad #after #agency #asked #country

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#act #actions #addition #administration #agency

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame. ↗

— Howard Coble

#been #blame #came #coast #coast guard

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#believing #cause #conceive #contradiction #development

How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values? The habit of authors writing Sexism Without Sexists in genre novels is seemingly pathological. Women are stuffed in the fridge under cover of "authenticity" by secondary characters and villains because too many authors flinch from the "authenticity" of sexist male protagonists. Which means the yardstick for "authenticity" in such novels almost always ends up being "how much do the women suffer", instead of - as might also be the case - "how sexist are the heroes". And this bugs me; because if authors can stretch their imaginations far enough to envisage the presence of modern-minded men in the fake Middle Ages, then why can't they stretch them that little bit further to put in modern-minded women, or modern-minded social values? It strikes me as being extremely convenient that the one universally permitted exception to this species of "authenticity" is one that makes the male heroes look noble while still mandating that the women be downtrodden and in need of rescuing. -Comment at Staffer's Book Review 4/18/2012 to "Michael J. Sullivan on Character Agency ↗

— Foz Meadows

#authenticity #fantasy #femlae-agency #genre #male-privledge

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

#budget #cutting #engine #exploration #innovation