Role Models Quotes - Page 17

• You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important

  Regina Agyare

  Important, Roles, Modeling

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• I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

  Magnus

  Kids, People, Roles

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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 was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  Bailey Chase

  Mom, Growing Up, Home

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• Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

  Selena

  Roles, Models

  Rare "Selena Live" Interview, 1993.

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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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• 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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• I make many mistakes. Many mistakes. I'm not a perfect human being. I have to learn from my mistakes. And a lot of the ones I've made have been public. So I always get nervous when people speak about something that sounds like a role model, because I don't know if I've been a great role model myself.

  Naomi Campbell

  Mistake, People, Perfect

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, Mother, Feminist

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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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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• You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Government, People, Giving

  "Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's Sister, On Her Brother and the Inauguration (and Wearing Sasha's Old Shoes!)". Interview with Glamour Magazine, www.glamour.com. January 20, 2013.

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• My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Dad, Father

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• Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

  Ralph Strangis

  Teaching, Taken, Years

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• I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

  Gal Gadot

  Daughter, Important, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

  Curtis Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Roles

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• Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

  Leon Spinks

  Kids, Needs, Roles

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• I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

  Rick Ross

  Motivation, People, Roles

  "13 Questions With Rick Ross". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  L. J. Smith

  Girl, Strong, Writing

  "'Vampire Diaries' author L.J. Smith weighs in on the series: 'They've done an incredible job of interpreting it'" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. September 24, 2009.

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• I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.

  Grace Helbig

  Thinking, Common Threads, People

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• I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

  Brandi Carlile

  Girl, Kids, Years

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• Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Growing Up, Father, Home

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• I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.

  John Legend

  Kings, Reading, Kids

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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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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