Programmes Quotes - Page 3

• Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last weeks winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Issues, News, Might

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• Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Names, Long, Andrew

  "Dimbleby lets rip at BBC 'anoraks'" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2003.

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• I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Enough, Range, Claims

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• Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!

  Larry Trask

  Cities, Long, Divergent

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• Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Want, Poverty

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• The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.

  John Lennon

  Real, Abuse, Faces

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Another reason why I am always close to the people, because the communication is very important. When I stopped to play soccer I continued to... I continued to work with UNICEF. I did a lot of work with UNESCO. We did a lot of charity programme and games.

  Pele

  Soccer, Communication, Games

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Uplifting, Country, Strong

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• I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

  Rob James-Collier

  Drama, Proud, Facts

  "'Downton Abbey's Rob James-Collier On His Tragic Hero Thomas Barrow, Dancing With Dame Maggie Smith And Waiting For The Next Role". Interview with Caroline Frost, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. November 18, 2015.

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• The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.

  Brian Blessed

  Fire, Bread, Radio

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• I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Broadway, Annoying, Initiative

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• In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Children, School

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• You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

  David Attenborough

  Decision, Environment, Natural

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• You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

  Alison Jackson

  Real, War, Nice

  "Alison Jackson On Obama, Assange And Why 'Reality' Doesn't Really Matter". Interview with Sam Parker, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

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• I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

  David Attenborough

  People, Giving, Credit

  "Life on Air". BBC documentary, 2002.

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• If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Would Be, Had Enough

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. September 20, 2013.

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• We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves — and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s going to get worse and worse.

  David Attenborough

  Views, People, Support

  "David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth" by Louise Gray, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2013.

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• NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivation, Successful, People

  "Neil Armstrong's last interview: rare glimpse of man and moon mission" by Paul Gallagher, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, People, Creative

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• To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Country, People, Different

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• Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

  Evan Davis

  Decision, Brain, Example

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• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

  Imre Lakatos

  Confused, Ocean, Becoming

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  Imre Lakatos

  Successful, Example, Research

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

  Christian Louboutin

  Care, Host, I Can

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• This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

  James Lovelock

  Crazy, War, Sigh Of Relief

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