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“A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.”

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Author:Gary Shteyngart

“Every single model wants to be in Sports Illustrated, and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.”

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Author:Katherine Webb

“I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.”

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Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.”

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Author:Johnny Weir

“I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.”

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Author:Gerhard Richter

“While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.”

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Author:Gregory Maguire

“During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.”

People Country America Millions Economy Economic Models Europe Unions Soviet Soviet Union Starving Famine 1930s Economic Systems Farmland

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.”

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Author:Peter Senge

“I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.”

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Author:Albert Pujols

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.”

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Author:Edward Gibbon

“We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.”

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Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.”

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Author:Johannes Kepler

“I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.”

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Author:Jennifer Aniston

“Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.”

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Author:Amy Hardie

“I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.”

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Author:Miranda Lambert

“Who is my role model and how long can I keep this going? I just move around and do different things and come back to music, try making films and come back to music, write children's books and come back to music.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.”

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Author:Chuck Comeau

“Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.”

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Author:Leon Spinks

“Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Ive been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.”

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Author:Alessandra Ambrosio

“I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.”

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Author:L. J. Smith

“You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.”

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Author:Eva Herzigova

“Now every model wants to be an actress”

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Author:Christy Turlington

“The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.”

“Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.”

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Book:Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism

Source: Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism

“The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!”

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Author:Dante Hall

“Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.”

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Author:Francis Collins

“I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.”

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Author:Grace Helbig

“I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.”

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Author:Brandi Carlile

“Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.”

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Author:Geoffrey Canada

“In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.”

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Author:Dan Ariely

“The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.”

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Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.”

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Author:Paula Creamer

“Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.”

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Author:Andy Stanley

“Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.”

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Author:Li Keqiang

“I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.”

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Author:Janet Echelman

“My father wasn't the best role model to me.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.”

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Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.”

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Author:Yoshihiko Noda

“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.”

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Author:Peter Higgs

“YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.”

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Author:Salar Kamangar

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