Frankie Valli

Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.

American Musician

Tate Reeves

Many of my friends and allies - not to mention my critics - lobbied me to spend on worthy causes. Who cares about a rainy-day fund when times are good? There are raises to give and projects to fund!

E. O. Wilson

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

American Scientist

Joel Salatin

Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.

American Author

Rene Auberjonois

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.

American Actor

Maxime Bernier

A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

Canadian Businessman

Walter F. Mondale

I will not lobby. I will not be an influence-type lawyer. I'm a professional lawyer.

American Lawyer

M. Jayachandran

I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.

Indian Composer

Kid Rock

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

Bradley A. Smith

The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.

American Public Servant

The term 'lobby' is often used in relation to buildings such as hotels, theaters, or public buildings, indicating a communal space.

Architectural Context

'Lobby' does not suggest any emotional atmosphere; it's simply a practical space within a structure.

Neutral Ground

Use 'lobby' when referring to a place for people to sit or wait, typically furnished with seats and informational brochures.

Public Waiting

When 'lobby' is used as a verb, it means actively trying to persuade decision-makers, usually in a political or business context.

Influential Effort

'Lobby' as a verb implies a professional approach, often involving discussion, argument, or campaigning.

Formal Action

A 'lobby' refers to a collective, such as an organization or group, that seeks to exert influence in public policy.

Advocacy Groups

The term is usually linked to a specific cause or issue such as the 'tourism lobby' or 'tech lobby'.

Specific Issues

 and made this law. Some people think this number's a little bit large, but copyright mathematicians who are media lobby experts are merely surprised that it doesn't get compounded for inflation every year. Now when this law first passed, the world's hottest MP3 player could hold just 10 songs.

The $8 billion iPod PIPE...

 There is an effective evolution lobby coordinating the fight on behalf of science, and I try to do all I can to help them, but they get quite upset when people like me dare to mention that we happen to be atheists as well as evolutionists.

Militant atheism PIPE...

 when an adult influences them to behave that way, and maybe censors that natural curiosity, or you know, reins in the question-asking in the hopes of them being polite little kids. So I just pictured a first grade teacher out in the lobby

It's not fair having 12...

 And the islands’ governments have repeatedly lobbied on the global stage for countries with the highest emissions to reduce pollution and take responsibility for climate change. The challenges facing each coastal community are unique,

Where will you be able...

 be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that I just pictured a first-grade teacher out in the lobby with these unruly kids saying now whatever you do don't stare at her legs when of course that's the

Daydreaming: The bridge...

 especially when faced by some of the most powerful lobbies in the world. But it doesn't require a miracle. It just requires determined organization. So we shouldn't succumb to defeatism. Whenever someone says,

Yuval Noah Harari: The...

 videotapes and her life I thought that would be very impactful in the lobby today are you very very very positive that my body with all the screws and wires and all that stuff in it and all

How a Woman's Donated...

 successfully lobbied states to preemptively ban plastic bag bans under the guise of protecting the consumer and the grocery stores and so the plastic bag remains as does our plastic

A Brief History of How...

 alright yeah what is the home village but the lobby sorry - yeah no oh did I get it further than he got it yeah even if he's being reluctant with the phrase she says I did a good

Wild West Town PIPE...

 it's not easy no no but we're a lobby it's not just that I lost my house it's not that I lost my memories my entire way of life is completely gone as hard

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