I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.


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MATT BENDER
Anyone who knows anything about volleyball knows faster offenses are better. I don't even like fast ...
MATT BENDER
I hope to get a job there, hopefully under software engineering.
MATT BENDER
I haven't seen a lot of the movies they'll be talking about, so I can't really relate to whether I a...
MATT BENDER
[Bender hopes that NAS report will turn things around.] This independent panel convened by Congress ...
MICHAEL BENDER
That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold t...
AIMEE BENDER
The physical condition of the base is the best I've seen,
WILLIAM BENDER
They laughed, carefully; it was straining, this proving one’s humanity to one another.
KAREN E. BENDER
We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK
My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK
Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK
Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK
The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK
The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK
When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK
It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK
For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK
Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK
If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK
I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE
I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE
We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE
There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER
And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE
The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE