Programmes Quotes - Page 6

• When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.

  Oliver Kahn

  Journey, Looks, Fancy

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• Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small population increases. Action is urgently required on both fronts to protect our life on earth

  Phil Harding

  Energy, Population, Needs

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• In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.

  Kofi Annan

  Issues, People, Understanding

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• For her part, the Church always works for the integral development of every person. In this sense, she reiterates that the common good should not be simply an extra, simply a conceptual scheme of inferior quality tacked onto political programmes. The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples.

  Pope Francis

  Political, Church, Quality

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• He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days

  Jules Verne

  World, Moments, Destination

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• The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Wmd, Iraq

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• The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.

  Simon Newcomb

  Morning, Night, Two

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• We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

  Eamon de Valera

  Opportunity, People, Work Out

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• It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

  Lesley Garrett

  Thinking, Idols, Worry

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

  George Shearing

  Play, Piano, Movement

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• Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Support, Research

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• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  Imre Lakatos

  Negative, Heuristics, Research

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful...the pack provides very clear guidelines...overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.

  Linda Armstrong

  Assessment, Practice, Analysis

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• All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

  David Eddings

  Three, Generations, Employment

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• I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.

  Nigel Rees

  Age, Tape, Recorders

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• What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Discipline, Understanding, Marketing

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• I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

  Angela Cartwright

  Thinking, America, Space

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• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.

  Gavyn Davies

  Son, Past, Blue

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• But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of co-operation from the U.S., the EU, and others.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Agency, Iran, Community

  "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.

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• Iran also has an extensive missile development programme. Iranian officials declare that the range of their modified Shahab-3 missiles is 2,000km, putting allied countries such as Turkey, Greece, Romania, and Bulgaria within reach.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.

  Gideon Raff

  Country, Israel, Sophisticated

  "Loved Homeland? Wait until you see its inspiration, Hatufim" by Michael Hogan, www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2012.

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• Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

  Carol Vorderman

  Careers, Watches, Rubies

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• Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

  Eric Bristow

  Sports, Tvs, Watches

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

  A. A. Gill

  Memories, Mean, Wrestling

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