If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
I never thought a role model should be negative.
Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
I'm not a role model.
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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