Role Models Quotes - Page 20

• The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

  Paula Creamer

  Strong, Adversity, Kids

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• My father wasn't the best role model to me.

  Joe Torre

  Father, Roles, Models

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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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• The older I get, the more I realize I'm becoming people's role models and that's freaky to me. That's not what you intend to do when you set out to be a musician, to be a little 14-year-old's role model.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Years, People, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

  Richard Attias

  Inspiration, Essentials, Advancement

  "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

  Shari Arison

  Men, Balance, Important

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• Role model? I don't have one. I want to be one.

  Kim Him-chan

  Roles, Want, Models

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• I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

  Tony Scott

  Real, Character, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Jobs, Teenager, School

  Interview with Grimes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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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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• Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

  Wayne Dyer

  Quality

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• I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Opportunity, Race, Waiting

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• I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

  Demi Lovato

  Roles, Kind, Made

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• I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Issues, Healthy

  "Demi Lovato, at 19, takes control of her own life". Interview With Mesfin Fekadu, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 1, 2011.

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• No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

  Shirley Manson

  Idols, Musical, Comfort

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• I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

  Danica McKellar

  Years, Parent, Email

  "Danica McKellar Faces Backlash Over Maxim Spread, Has Advice For Miley Cyrus" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 04, 2010.

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• I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Cat, Math

  "Danica McKellar's Mathematical Theorem". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 11, 2006.

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• My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Virginia, Roles, Bronte

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

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• I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn't feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Different, Roles, Taught

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Father, Hair, Long

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• I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Thinking, Needs, Roles

  "Stuff Me in a Suitcase: MSNBC's Wagner Aches to Be Adopted by the Clinton Family". www.newsbusters.org. June 14, 2013.

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• The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

  L. J. Smith

  Girl, Strong, Book

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• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

  Abraham Verghese

  Uncles, School, Physicians

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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