#commission

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#big #commission #crawling #lone #think

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#australian #australian film #battle #commission #each

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#beginning #being #biographies #book #called

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent. ↗

— Tim Holden

#chapter #code #commission #contains #family

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' ↗

— Bobby Hull

#almost #commissioner #deja #deja vu #enough

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#certain #commission #convention #created #delegates

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#commissioner #coup #good #i #surprised

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #commission #did #embracing #followed

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#committing #enough #him #his #humor

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#give #great #keep #natural #natural rights