Role Models Quotes - Page 24

• I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Men, Issues, Anxiety

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• 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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• I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.

  Mike Vallely

  Meaningful, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Blessed, Character, Unique

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.

  Mark Indelicato

  Years, America, Big Sister

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.

  Garth Kravits

  Girl, Mother, Humble

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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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• I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.

  Mark Indelicato

  Perfect, Roles, Looks

  Source: www.justjared.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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• Well, being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams.

  Kerri Walsh

  Mother, Dream, Children

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I want to be the best role model I can be for my family. I want my husband and I to be the ones our kids look to for guidance, to be the great role models that I had with my parents growing up, so for as hard as we work, I want our kids to see us having fun. I want our kids to know that we have to feel our bodies. And nutrition is a huge part of that.

  Kerri Walsh

  Fun, Husband, Growing Up

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.

  Kerri Walsh

  Beautiful, Girl, Sports

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you."

  Evangeline Lilly

  Heart, Healthy, Letters

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I don't have a role model, but I certainly have always enjoyed Neil Young. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to watch him from the side of the stage on a couple of occasions, and his on-stage sound is incredible.

  Kevin Shields

  Couple, Opportunity, Watches

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Girl, Strong

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too."

  Richard Rodriguez

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

  John Amaechi

  Responsibility, Thinking, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• 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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• People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Growing Up, Good Life, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1730, Random House

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• When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Real, Inspiration

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.178, Vintage

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