Role Models Quotes - Page 5

• I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Athlete, Thinking

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• Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

  Sam Kinison

  Roles, Youth, Impressionable

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• I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

  Benigno Aquino III

  Parent, Mentor, Doe

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• Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike or write a few short stories. Also, find good people and surround yourself with them. Most importantly, always believe you will, unequivocally.

  Sarah Silverman

  Believe, Passion, Writing

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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 don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize

  Warren Farrell

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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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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• In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of falsehoods by Hillary Rodham Clinton and declared 'Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -€” a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -€” is a congenital liar.'

  Marc Thiessen

  New York, Liars, Lying

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• I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.

  Lady Gaga

  People, Important, Connections

  "Lady Gaga Values being a role model" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 02, 2010.

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• Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

  Toby Keith

  Should Have, Mind, Trying

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• I don't think I was particularly in need of superheroes. I never had any fascination with Superman or Spider-Man or a Batman kind of character. If it happened at all, it was imagined characters that I had invented. My dad was a role model for me. He was a fascinating man. There was intrigue and entertainment growing up with him. He gave me an edict that I still pursue: “Life should never be boring."

  Christian Bale

  Growing Up, Dad, Character

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

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• I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

  Kyan Douglas

  Opportunity, Roles, Positive Role Model

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mom, New York, Powerful

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• 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.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Strong, Fighting

  "Fox: 'I'm a strong, intelligent role model'" by Marcell Minaya, www.digitalspy.com. July 13, 2009.

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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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• I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

  Clay Aiken

  Fall, Responsibility, America

  Reuters, February 22, 2004.

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• We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.

  Tony Dungy

  Impact, Roles, World

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.301, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Father, Real, Excellence

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• It's important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are a lot of not-so-good role models out there for younger kids, it's good to have someone they can relate to on television.

  Phoebe Tonkin

  Girl, Kids, Character

  "H2O Interview with Cariba Heine and Phoebe Tonkin". Kidzworld interview, www.kidzworld.com.

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• My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action.
  My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

  Arlen Specter

  Father, War, Men

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• I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

  Lara Stone

  People, Roles, Looks

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

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• To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Thinking, Immature, Roles

  "5 Things You Didn’t Know About One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson" by Dana Mathews, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2013.

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