Programmes Quotes - Page 7

• The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Optimistic, Character, Thinking

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• When we look at the full-on mass surveillance watching everyone in the country, in the United States, it doesn't work. It didn't stop the attacks in Boston. The marathon bombings. Where again, we knew who these individuals were. It didn't stop the Underwear Bomber, whose father walked into an embassy and warned us about this individual before he walked onto an airplane. And it's not going to stop the next attacks either. Because again, they're not public safety programmes. They're spying programmes. They are valuable for spying.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Father, Airplane

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Doe, Demand

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!

  Paul Virilio

  Risk, Asian, Financial

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Years, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Russia and the United States are the biggest nuclear powers, this leaves us with an extra special responsibility. By the way, we manage to deal with it and work together in certain fields, particularly in resolving the issue of the Iranian nuclear programme. We worked together and we achieved positive results on the whole.

  Vladimir Putin

  Responsibility, Russia, Issues

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• Every season something happens so I programme that in; something will happen.

  Usain Bolt

  Happens, Seasons, Things Happen

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• Our motto is 'from cradle to grave.' Unwanted babies are delivered to us through our cradle programme, where we work to find new homes for them for parents desiring children. In addition to our healthcare programmes, we also have a programme for burying the dead, meeting all the necessary expenses for those who are unable to do so.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Baby, Children, Home

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Destiny, Vanity, Europe

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• Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

  Billy Connolly

  Art, Reality, Needs

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

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• The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

  Emo Philips

  Diving, Turned Down, Cables

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• I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

  John Major

  Running, Son, Priorities

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• We assess that there is no significant threat to the UK from nuclear weapons at present, but developments continue to be monitored closely. We remain committed to limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons through our international treaty obligations, and national programmes.

  Geoff Hoon

  Nuclear, Development, Weapons

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• The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

  Jon Elster

  Order, Problem, Sometimes

  Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

  Jonathan Meades

  Men, Television, Cameras

  Source: thequietus.com

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• With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Recovery, Tape, Attention

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which meant firstly that I was hearing about amazing-sounding books from other translators, and also that I was getting enough of an insider's view of the publishing industry to be aware of all the implicit biases that made it so difficult for these books to ever get published, especially if they weren't from European languages (harder to discover, editors can't read the original, lack of funding programmes, authors who don't speak English).

  Deborah Smith

  Book, Years, Speak English

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hiv, Textbooks, Able

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.

  David Batstone

  World, Slavery, Around The World

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• At present, the United States, with over 700 foreign military bases, navies in every ocean, a programme to militarise space, and drone bases planned for all regions of the world, is increasingly perceived in relation to its hard power diplomacy, a threat to political independence and stability for many countries.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Military, Ocean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

  Terence McKenna

  Light, Imagination, Empowerment

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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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