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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
Zach Galifianakis

Yourself, Long, Done

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Ideas, Process, Commitment

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
Richard Gere

Love, Kindness, Compassion

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
Jeffrey Sachs

State, Military, House

For the United States to recommit itself to the obligation that we undertook in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that many other states undertook, which was to work towards disarmament and the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, is something that manifestly serves our national security interests.
Susan Rice

Work, Security, United

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.
Michael Ian Black

Music, Sports, Boring

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.
Helen Clark

Work, Nature, Water

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
Helen Clark

Equality, Serious, Gender

We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it.
Ismail Haniyeh

Real, Dream, Support

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.
David Brainerd

Success, Cannot, Here

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Gerrit Smith

God, Power, Cannot

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.
Emma Bonino

Seen, Movement, Capable

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat

War, Mind, Thinking

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.
Archie Panjabi

Life, Time, Wanted

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Gratitude, Sense, American

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.
Richard King

Women, Society, Between

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.
Richard King

Movies, Woman, Place

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
Richard King

Women, Past, Place

Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
John Hutton

Union, Economy, Meet

It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
Bob Barr

Real, Problem, Another

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.
Charles Sturt

Before, Sunset, Opposite

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
Lajos Kossuth

Honest, Questions, Principles

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.
Dannii Minogue

Love, Women, Positive

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
Colin Greenwood

Moving, Guitar, Computer

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.
Simon Travaglia

Thoughts, Sometimes, Actions

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.
Geraldo Rivera

War, Important, Year

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.
Jeremy Irons

Work, Trust, Good

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.
Kevin Spacey

Life, Change, Committed

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.
John Dyer

Through, Why, Personal

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
Adam Schiff

America, Others, Act

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