Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use,. . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.
I always looked up to great actors and great films. A lot of my family would be like, 'Come on, you should get into these plays that are going on. ' I'm like, 'Nah, nah, music's my thing. ' I just fell into it. I moved to Atlanta, got with an agency out there, started doing little voiceover commercials, and it started getting kind of fun.
Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it. Macroeconomics: The study of which government agency has the gun, and how we can get our hands on it.
Of course, ISIS is a terrible organization that has to be defeated. And, of course, we need a strong military. But just as with every other agency of government, you know what, the military also has got to get rid of waste and fraud and cost overruns.
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.
For me planting a tree is a very doable thing. It's not complicated, it doesn't require technology, it doesn't require much knowledge, but it can be a very important entry point into communities understanding how they destroy their own resources, but how they can also restore those resources, and not wait for their government or international agencies to come and help them.
My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.
The U. S. Coast Guard is a shining example of how well a Federal agency can perform with its flexibility, speed, and expertise.
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
Congressman [Mike] Pompeo said he believes the intelligence agencies' claims that Russia hacked the US election.
We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty programs is almost beyond calculation.
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I'm as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I'm not condemning anybody.