#council

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities. ↗

— Timothy West

#authorities #back #buy #council #derelict

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever. ↗

— Timothy West

#case #committee #complain #council #decide

I was to grow used to hearing, around New York, the annoying way in which people would say: 'Edward Said, such a suave and articulate and witty man,' with the unspoken suffix 'for a Palestinian.' It irritated him, too, naturally enough, but in my private opinion it strengthened him in his determination to be an ambassador or spokesman for those who lived in camps or under occupation (or both). He almost overdid the ambassadorial aspect if you ask me, being always just too faultlessly dressed and spiffily turned out. Fools often contrasted this attention to his tenue with his membership of the Palestine National Council, the then-parliament-in-exile of the people without a land. In fact, his taking part in this rather shambolic assembly was a kind of noblesse oblige: an assurance to his landsmen (and also to himself) that he had not allowed and never would allow himself to forget their plight. The downside of this noblesse was only to strike me much later on. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bigotry #dress #edward-said #new-york #palestinian-national-council

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#confidence #council #country #determined #estate

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#hands #high #i #joseph #ordained

I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#been #certain #certain extent #clinton #council

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#chaos #come #council #desperate #ever

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#athletics #available #council #day #every

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it. ↗

— Karen Kain

#council #even #had #i #nothing

King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#council #katsa #letters #nander #po