“I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.” SchoolJobsCollegeFitCorporateBoredMoldGradGrad School Author:Dean Karnazes
“I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.” WayWantStoriesStyleTypeFitHollywoodMy WayNarrativeNot InterestedAccentsTemperamentMold Author:Haile Gerima
“I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.” PeopleIfsLongRecordsFitMarketingSmellLabelsRatsOld PeopleMoldPhonyRecord Labels Author:Anthony Evans
“You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.” IfsRunningRolesPositionFitVersionsSupposed To BeBeing The BestDo The BestMoldQuarterback Author:Robert Griffin III
“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.” ThinkingTryingLooksSelfUseOrderGirlCommonCompanyFitBehaviorAskingRaisesCeoMoldEntitlementDoseTrying To Change Author:Adora Svitak
“America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.” ShouldYearsCountryAmericaWhiteFitYears AgoImmigrantsInclusionMold Author:Tom Gjelten
“I felt free, once I realized i was never going to fit the narrow mold that society wanted me to fit in.” WantedFeltFitI RealizedMold Author:Ashley Graham
“I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.” MayDoneWantedJobsGuyFeltCareersTeamFitBlueWideMoldCollarsReceiverBlue CollarI May Not BeGet The Job DoneFlamboyantSteelersWide Receiver Author:Hines Ward
“You have to have quarterbacks who can keep up with everybody else. And I'm not saying that just black quarterbacks can do that, but more black quarterbacks are given a chance because they fit the mold.” GivenBlackCan DoChanceFitMoldQuarterbackGiven A Chance Author:Daunte Culpepper
“BMX riding breaks down racial perceptions. Coming from New York City and being a BMX rider, that isn't something that's too common. I feel like for the longest time, I would ride through certain neighborhoods and people would call me a "white boy" because they associated white boys from California with BMX riding, and it bugs me so much because I'm completely not that. I completely don't fit that mold. It's really important for me to bring BMX riding to the masses and show people exactly what it is.” PeopleFeelsImportantShowsCertainWhiteCommonCitiesBoysBreakNew YorkFitPerceptionMassCaliforniaNeighborhoodCall MeNew York CityRidingBreaking DownBugsMoldRidersBmx Author:Nigel Sylvester
“Portraying this character [Diwata] has really given me an opportunity to get in touch with that side of myself, which I haven't been for a few years. And I do know what it's like to be different from people around you and not fit into the prototypical mold of what America sort of thinks a girl "should be."” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldYearsDifferentCharacterAmericaGirlOpportunityGivenSidesHavensFitMoldPortraying Author:Sarah Steele
“I think that Diwata does not fit that mold. She's loud, she's a huge personality, she's imposing. I don't know if I'm the same thing in that sense, but what gives me the joy in playing her is the total rejection of needing to fit in. It's so inspiring.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingDoeJoyHugePersonalityFitGive MeLoudRejectionMoldImposing Author:Sarah Steele
“In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do.” IfsMatterBodyCertainFeltTypeFitBalletMoldBody Types Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.” KnowsWellsKindTwoSchoolMotherFatherWhiteCollegeFitWingsSexyEducatedHipsSquaresTrashMoldNursingRight WingHipsterWell EducatedWhite TrashNursing School Author:James Ellroy
“I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.” TryingFitStandardsMoldAlways Trying Author:Shawn Johnson
“I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.” WayFeelsI CanDifferentShowsArtistCausesCan DoChanceFitShotsDeserveBoxesFrustrationMold Author:PJ Harvey
“I think we can not categorize. Things do not fit into a mold.” ThinkingFitCan NotMold Author:Ansel Adams
“The media has a formula, they have a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials they don't like. It's not gonna work on Trump. He doesn't fit that mold.” PoliticalMediaTrumpFitRepublicanOfficialsFormulasDestroyingMoldBlueprints Author:Rush Limbaugh
“That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.” PeopleIfsWantEndsSometimesHardEnoughLeftHappenedFitIdealsUnionsChinaSovietBeatenConformSoviet UnionMold Author:Mark Helprin
“I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.” TryingDadFitPressureMy DadCopiesMold Author:Joel Osteen
“I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.” ThinkingMenFitBasketballNbaMold Author:Dennis Rodman
“'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.” LongYoungSufferingVoiceStageMomFitDespairAdultsAddEdgesSingersInnocentIdolsMoldPsychoRealnessLong Suffering Author:Rob Sheffield