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What attracted me towards microfinance is it's a very sustainable business, which has an impact on people's lives yet it can be very profitable.
I'm always inspired by all of my friends. I aspire to make clothes that my friends would want to wear, that they would gravitate towards anyway.
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.
Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
It's the individual effort of everybody working together towards a collective goal that causes real, effective change in America and in the world.
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.
A permanent, growing fund for student aid will help all Oregonians afford needed education and training and build a path towards a stronger future.
For me, in my life, dyslexia has been a little bit of a blessing. It helped me find my strength and directed me towards what I really wanted to do.
One of the reasons why Canadians are generally positively inclined towards immigration is we've seen over decades, over generations, that it works.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an aura of their own.
Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?
Some directors ask for a hero introduction number, a duet and a fast number towards the climax. Most of the times, these songs only hinder the story.
I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.
I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
I really don't have a method. I gravitate towards the organic/acoustic, but I still often complete songs musically before attempting to find the lyric.
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
I started gravitating towards Soundcloud. So, that was my hustle and then I met my manager Justin in 2012 and we were just grinding it out in New York.
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.
I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.
I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.
When you are passionate about something, you don't need external motivation to work towards achieving it.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
To its credit, Twitter is at least making an effort to curb hate speech towards transgender people, training its staff how to respond.
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?
Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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?
Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.