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• As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.

  Phil Foglio

  Roles, Bucks, Firsts

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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 think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mom, Strong, Smart

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• Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Integrity, Mistake, People

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• ... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Ambition, Race, People

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Appreciation, Passion, Noble

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• Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, School, Fate

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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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• We rappers are role models.

  Kanye West

  Art, Rapper, Media

  Song: Jesus Walks

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• A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

  Anthony Giddens

  Unity, Important, Groups

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• I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

  Corey Feldman

  Children, Roles, Kind

  "Corey Feldman Exclusive Interview - LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2008.

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• A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

  Ben Horowitz

  Needs, Roles, Managers

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• When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Strong, Character, Female Role Models

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• I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

  Susanna Hoffs

  Strong, Thinking, Female Role Models

  "Sweetheart Of The Sun & Modern Art : Chatting With The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• I think that when you are in the limelight it is part of your obligation to be a good role model. A lot of kids look up to you, and you are given a God-given talent, so it is your responsibility. It isn't hard to deal with. I never have to think twice about doing anything.

  Curtis Joseph

  Kids, Responsibility, Thinking

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• My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Mother, Father, Years

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

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• It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.

  Eric Shinseki

  Military, Men, America

  "Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for the United States". Book by Bill Yenne, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Confidence, Fans, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

  Mary Cheney

  Teenager, Pride, Gay

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