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• My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

  Tiger Woods

  Fathers Day, Husband, Dad

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• I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Odds

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• If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

  Mason Cooley

  Roles, Warning, Let Me

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• Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Teacher, Children, Goal

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• I want to be the best role model I can be for my family.

  Kerri Walsh

  Roles, Want, Being The Best

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Roles, Rats

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

  Bill Watterson

  Peace, War, Play

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

  Stephen Colbert

  Teacher, Children, Father

  "I Am America (And So Can You!)". Book by Stephen Colbert. Part One: "My American Childhood", Chapter One: "The Family", 2007.

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• God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Liars, Mean

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited, concerned with money and looks kind of thing that you'll see in a lot of reality shows. And I think that's really damaging, not just because it's a terrible role model to put forth, but that it also puts across this idea to the American public that this is what young women are like, that this is what all young women in America are like.

  Jessica Valenti

  Conceited, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Our children don't have to have drinking problems. They don't have to go through divorce or live defeated lives. You can be the one to stir them up, shake them up, and tell them there is a champion inside of them just waiting to come out. Tell them God has a plan for their lives, and they are destined to do greater things than we ever thought of doing.... You can decide to be the role model and reverse your whole generational pattern from a bad one to a good one.

  Tim Storey

  Children, Drinking, Divorce

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• The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up there were no role models that were blokey, that were men. Everybody was flamboyant and camp, and I remember going, 'That's not me, so even though I think I am gay, I don't think I fit into this world.

  Russell Tovey

  Growing Up, Gay, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind of Joan of Arc because none of us can live up to that, but I'm grateful to be a role model and be respected because I have a whole slew of people, men and women, that I feel the same way about.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Grateful, Men, People

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• Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

  Tony Robbins

  Mentor, Roles, Done

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

  Wangari Maathai

  Skills, Generations, Roles

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model.  Your primary influence is the environment you create.

  Peter Senge

  Commitment, Nudge Nudge, Inspire

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• There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.

  Barbara Park

  Smile, Children, Fun

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• You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Roles, Knows

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• I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

  Mark Millar

  Kindness, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

  Patti Smith

  Stars, Roles, Baptists

  "Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe". Interview with Deborah Amos, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

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• I'm a role model for lots of young girls.

  Jennie Finch

  Girl, Roles, Young

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• We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Teacher, Attitude, Hero

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• I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

  Lily Allen

  Mother, People, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Men, Black, Despair

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• This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty.In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

  Geena Davis

  Real, Character, Csi

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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