#agent

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#another #break #government #i #injustice

These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#arms #baseball #come #days #different

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency. ↗

— Louis Menand

#decisions #fate #history #individuals #predestination

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#allowed #any #exclusive #fight #free

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

#child #child actors #different #everyone #functions

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along. ↗

— Laura Carmichael

#along #come #girl #going #hopeless

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions. ↗

— Gary Neville

#agents #bank #decisions #everything #hates

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. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#agent #allow #buy #consumers #dishonest

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#auditioning #blonde #certain #certain actors #difficult

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#because #conscious #content #fat #father