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• Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

  Brooks Robinson

  Faith, Baseball, Player

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• Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Grace, Ordinary

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• I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

  Charles Barkley

  Parent, Roles, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

  PJ Harvey

  Progress, Roles, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Roles

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Motivational, Basketball, Girl

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• It's really neat when you become a role model. It's also a lot of responsibility. But if you see it as a platform where you can pour into others for Jesus with love, that's where I want to be. Becoming known or noticed in my sport isn't what drives me to work hard and want to be the best I can be. It's Jesus. That's why I play. I play to glorify Him. I worship Him with the gifts I've been given.

  Tobin Heath

  Sports, Jesus, Responsibility

  Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

  Benjamin Carson

  Children, Choices, Black

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• Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

  Graydon Carter

  School, Men, Thinking

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• For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

  Joan Chen

  Girl, Past, Thinking

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

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• I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

  Eric Davis

  Cancer, People, Roles

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

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• Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

  Beth Ditto

  Hands, Female Role Models, Identity

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Childhood, Parent, Roles

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• I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

  R. Lee Ermey

  People, Roles, Young

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

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• My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Team, Wings

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.

  Harvey Milk

  Running, Teacher, Should Have

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• Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Leader, Trying

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• I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Girl, Healthy, Roles

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• Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trust No One, Roles, Picks

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• Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

  Adam Schiff

  Stars, Honor, Roles

  "Senator proposes highway to honor Gene Autry". www.cnn.com. January 28, 1999.

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• I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.

  Lily Cole

  Integrity, Believe, Thinking

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

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• I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Appreciation, Teacher, America

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• My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

  PSY

  Queens, Hero, Roles

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

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• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  Camille Paglia

  Believe, Thinking, Views

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• I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport. That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen and what do you do? Do you crumble with your life or do you go forward?

  Dana Hee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Life after the Olympics: From gold medalist to stuntwoman and chicken rancher" by Caroline Tan, www.today.com. August 23, 2012.

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