At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places.
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.
When people have options for what they want to see, it forces the quality of programming and content to be higher.
I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’ But then ...
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
