Top 24 Lobbied Quotes
#1. One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
Oscar Wilde
#2. When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.
Michael Josephson
#3. If you draft me, you'll never regret it.
Kwame Brown
#4. There's a thread that binds all of us together; pull one end of the thread, the strain is felt all down the line.
Rosamond Marshall
#5. He practically floated. He spoke, smiled, nodded, and laughed with so much flawless grace. I suddenly felt an urge to push him over. I wanted him to fall on his ass just so he could seem human. I wanted him to laugh, open-mouthed and uncontrolled.
Maggie Young
#6. People have trouble admitting there are problems, but everyone has an area he or she would like
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#7. Climate deniers are less immoral than Holocaust deniers, although they are undoubtedly more dangerous.
Clive Hamilton
#8. Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
#9. Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.
Ellen Lupton
#10. The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.
Elizabeth Warren
#11. ...this is how politics is played. With fakery and false smiles and butcher knives to the back.
Emma Chase
#12. I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.
Bristol Palin
#14. The man looks the world full in the face, as if it were made for his uses and fashioned to his liking. The woman takes a sidelong glance at it, full of subtlety, even of suspicion. Had they both worn the same clothes, it is possible that their outlook might have been the same.
Virginia Woolf
#15. The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
Ron Wyden
#16. After the meeting, RBC conducted a study, never released publicly, in which they found that more than two hundred SEC staffers since 2007 had left their government jobs to work for high-frequency trading firms or the firms that lobbied Washington
Michael Lewis
#17. Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.
Amy Ridenour
#18. The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.
Rene Auberjonois
#19. Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
Frei Otto
#20. Our mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way we lobbied for nonsmoking areas ten years ago.
Kalle Lasn
#21. If [modern artists] hadn't lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for 'art' that leaves him unmoved.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#22. I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear "no," and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.
Gavin De Becker
#23. As I watched, another pizza went out, the car lurching into the street and speeding away with the quickness that told of a large engine. Pizza drivers have made good money since they successfully lobbied for hazard pay.
Kim Harrison
#24. I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.
Ari Marcopoulos
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