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Quotes About Programs

Given the findings that television viewers enjoy violent and nonviolent programs equally (or enjoy nonviolent more than violent), how is it that media executives still follow the mantra "violence sells"? The answer: because violence brings a larger viewership
~ Douglas A. Gentile
My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.
~ Gough Whitlam
Without a passion to disciple believers to Christlikeness through the ministries of the church, the church will focus merely on perpetuating its programs, and the sheep will grow sickly and unfruitful.
~ Jim Berg
As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.
~ Jim DeMint
I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
~ Jim Talent
The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy.
~ Annalee Newitz
These feelings came from programs that ran in a part of his mind that he couldn't access. He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges. As a result, Paladin felt many things without knowing why.
~ Annalee Newitz
When I started acting, I thought everything should be issue-based and that there should be a helpline at the end of every program.
~ Jason Isaacs
I believe that if we want to change our industry we must look beyond what we see on our TV screens and fix the bigger problems lying beneath. When it comes to racial diversity that means looking at who commissions and makes the programmes.
~ Lenny Henry
Have I ever presented a programme I don't watch? Well, I've done loads of programmes that no one else watched!
~ Fiona Bruce
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
~ John Prescott
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.
~ Noam Chomsky
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
~ Brian Eno
There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them.
~ Peter Capaldi
We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.
~ Jakaya Kikwete
I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.
~ Melvyn Bragg
I never watch anything live, I record all my programmes and have a real binge on a Friday night and watch them all.
~ Katie Piper
I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.
~ Melvyn Bragg
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
~ Linus Torvalds
The Violence Against Women Act is personal to me because I know the programs and services it funds are lifesaving.
~ Cori Bush
I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.
~ Steve Chabot
Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.
~ Rowan Atkinson
I'm sick of hearing white liberals claim that if you call them out for their failed liberal programs, you're a racist. It makes my blood boil - which is part of why I am running.
~ Darryl Glenn