#commission

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#commissions #conditions #creating #greatest #having

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#after #big #commissioned #documentary #england

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul? ↗

— Charles Simeon

#corruption #cross #destroy #does #drive

Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and—most unforgivably—increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault. ↗

— Norman G. Finkelstein

#dissent #gaza-war #goldstone-commission #human-rights #israel

I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation. ↗

— Frank Scott

#commissions #country #ever #fair #had

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#come #commission #i #know #new

Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#apart #around #audience #being #commissioned

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aptly #clear #commission #demonstrates #intelligence

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime? ↗

— Linda Tripp

#crime #expectation #privacy #where

They're the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and they will not do that. They will not pull the trigger. ↗

— Gray Davis

#energy #federal #pull #regulatory #trigger