Role Models Quotes - Page 11

• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize

  Warren Farrell

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action.
  My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

  Arlen Specter

  Father, War, Men

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• I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

  Rupert Everett

  Kids, Thinking, Should Have

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• Being a role model is a privilege.

  Allyson Felix

  Roles, Privilege, Being A Role Model

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• Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

  Bobby Orr

  Kids, Sneakers, Roles

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• I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

  Marilyn Manson

  Roles, Villain, Models

  Interview with Lauren E. Bohn, content.time.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

  Jordan Peele

  Black, Nerd, Roles

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• I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.

  Dakota Fanning

  Mistake, Reading, Eye

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• A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

  Tionne Watkins

  Roles, Respect Yourself, Love And Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

  Barack Obama

  Athlete, Roles, Sides

  "Obama Remarks on Math, Science and Technology Education". www.washingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

  Jonathan Ames

  Beautiful, Book, Insane

  "'Bored to Death' creator Jonathan Ames". Interview with Robert Lloyd, latimesblogs.latimes.com. November 14, 2011.

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• -When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Strong, Growing Up, Bridges

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• But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Fall, Female Role Models, Roles

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• The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

  Marla Gibbs

  Children, Cities, Roles

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• I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Thinking, Servant Of God

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.

  Taylor Swift

  Running, Thinking, Nashville

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• I love you Rush Finlay. You are going to be the best husband and father the world has ever known. One day our son’s wife will be thankful that her husband will have had you for a role model. She’ll be lucky because of you. Because you will have raised our son to be the man that you are. He’ll love her completely because he’ll know how.

  Abbi Glines

  Husband, Father, Love You

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Fallen Too Far Trilogy: Includes Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.

  Mr. Lif

  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

  Denise Van Outen

  Girl, Thinking, Roles

  "How Denise van Outen lost weight". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 28, 2008.

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• If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

  Banksy

  Sex, Dirty, Roles

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• I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

  Yul Vazquez

  Kids, Parent, Roles

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• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Educational, Practice, Challenges

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• People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

  Andrew Shue

  Dream, People, Roles

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• I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and conquers fears. I want my children to know that as women they can do whatever they dream as long as they believe in themselves. More than anything it is my responsibility to instill in my daughters the knowledge that they can have a family and everything else too.

  Mireya Mayor

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  Mireya Mayor (2011). “Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer”, p.299, National Geographic Books

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• Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

  James Iha

  Roles, Wells, Models

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