“People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.” PeopleNeedsRolesExampleModelsRole Models Author:Coretta Scott King
“America Ferrera is definitely one of my biggest role models, and she has been for the last three years. Like a big sister, someone I can look up to and aspire to be.” YearsLooksHas BeensI CanBigsLastsAmericaThreeRolesModelsLook UpRole ModelsThree YearsAspireBig Sister Author:Mark Indelicato
“I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.” KnowsWorldLooksPerfectRolesModelsRole Models Author:Mark Indelicato
“Well, being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams.” WellsChildrenDreamBigsWantedMotherFatherCareersRolesOur LivesModelsConnectedWell BeingMy ChildrenRole ModelsChasingWorking Mom Author:Kerri Walsh
“I want to be the best role model I can be for my family. I want my husband and I to be the ones our kids look to for guidance, to be the great role models that I had with my parents growing up, so for as hard as we work, I want our kids to see us having fun. I want our kids to know that we have to feel our bodies. And nutrition is a huge part of that.” KnowsWantFeelsLooksI CanHardBodyKidsFunParentRolesGrowing UpGrowingHugeHusbandModelsMy FamilyHaving FunGuidanceBeing The BestMy HusbandRole ModelsNutritionGreat Role Models Author:Kerri Walsh
“I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.” KnowsAbleBeautifulGirlSportsBoysRolesPositionModelsImpactRole ModelsDaddyAmbassadorsReally BeautifulBoy Girl Author:Kerri Walsh
“I am who I am and I am what I am. And it's beautiful. And it's okay even if it doesn't look like the sexiest Victoria Secret model. It also boils down to my interactions with people.” PeopleIfsLooksBeautifulSecretModelsOkayWho I AmInteractionVictoriaI Am Who I AmSexiestI Am What I Am Author:Evangeline Lilly
“I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you."” KnowsWantHeartMadeYoungRolesBreakLike YouMy HeartHealthyModelsLettersRole ModelsCriedCrashYoung WomenDietingBreaking My HeartOlder Women Author:Evangeline Lilly
“The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.” ModelsStandardsIncompleteQuarks Author:Fabiola Gianotti
“I don't have a role model, but I certainly have always enjoyed Neil Young. I had the great pleasure and opportunity to watch him from the side of the stage on a couple of occasions, and his on-stage sound is incredible.” YoungOpportunitySoundSidesPleasureRolesWatchesStageCoupleModelsIncrediblesEnjoyedOccasionsRole Models Author:Kevin Shields
“I'm feeling like the music business is reaping what it's sown. It's going through what inevitably it was going to go through. It was a very decadent, very glamorous business that took advantage of a lot of people for a long time and didn't do things right and had a poor business model.” PeopleLongFeelingsPoorLong TimeModelsAdvantageGlamorousMusic BusinessBusiness Models Author:Adam Levine
“We have to have positive male role models.” RolesModelsMalesRole ModelsMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.” IfsPersonsCountryCommunityChurchRolesMillionsInvolvedPeriodsModelsInstitutionsMalesRole ModelsMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“In terms of Iraq, al Qaeda valued Iraq because we destroyed a government it wanted destroyed and because we put soldiers on the ground and forces that they could attack. Al Qaeda is basically an insurgent organization that was formed on the model of the Afghan groups. And being bred in that war, they value a contiguous safe haven as much as anything else.” WarGovernmentWantedValuesForceTermGroupsHavensSafeModelsOrganizationSoldierIraqDestroyedAlsAl QaedaInsurgentSafe HavenAfghan Author:Michael Scheuer
“I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all.” ArtCareersModelsPhotographerActressesJournalistFilmmakerHats Author:Garth Kravits
“The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.” MadeWantedFilmMotherGirlPassionCompanyLeaderRolesFourColorCallingProjectsLateModelsLaborTransformationUnionsWorkersHumblePassingPassingsUnexpectedActivistRole ModelsSecretaryDocumentariesAsianFilesPacificHardworking Author:Garth Kravits
“Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.” MomentsInspirationRolesModelsGolfLeavingLastingRole ModelsMuhammadRogerNelsonFederer Author:Rory McIlroy
“I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.” PeopleWantTogetherModelsCycles Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.” NeedsHardFilmSupportGroupsModelsIndependentUsualDocumentariesJuiceAdvocacySupport GroupsDocumentary Films Author:Tim Hetherington
“With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things are clearer earlier. Being young meant flailing around a lot, especially as I was trying to invent new shapes without a ton of models.” TryingMeanI CanYoungCertainProcessEffortGriefShapesModelsComplicatedGetting OldGetting OlderSimplificationFlailingComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.” YearsLooksLittlesDesignMetsTenComputerModelsBuiltMachinesDrawingDesignerVehicleMiceComplaintsKeyboardsRadius Author:Daniel Simon
“It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.” ThinkingLittlesStillsHappensLinesKnowingNiceComputerModelsMachinesScreensClassicPriceless Author:Daniel Simon
“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.” IfsThinkingWantLooksLittlesBookCharacterGirlStuffResponsibilityRolesModelsPercentDaughterFemaleWindowMalesStoresComicOddMy DaughterRole ModelsComic BookShelves Author:Mark Millar
“I love the fact that they [girls ]are into Superman and Green Lantern and Batman and everything, and they really do have all those toys as well, but I don't want all their role models to be men.” MenWantWellsFactsGirlRolesModelsGreenRole ModelsToysBe A ManLanternsGreen Lantern Author:Mark Millar
“I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.” ThinkingMenNeedsQualityRolesKindnessModelsRole ModelsMen Women Author:Mark Millar
“I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.” MenWantLanguageRolesIssuesTaughtAnxietyModelsMinoritiesMeant To BeProfessorsRole ModelsIntricacy Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.” WantShouldKindHandsCommunityWrittenRocksExampleWalkingOne DayModelsBraveryNotionSentencesLakesLiving My LifeVirginiaSampleSweatersSyntaxSociologicalWoolf Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The popular idea of a role model implies that an adult's influence on a child is primarily occupational, and that all a black child needs is to see a black doctor, and then this child will think, "Oh, I can become a doctor too."” ThinkingNeedsChildrenI CanIdeasBlackRolesInfluenceModelsAdultsDoctorsRole Models Author:Richard Rodriguez
“There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.” NeedsAmountModelsGas Author:Alek Wek
“I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.” ThinkingWorldDifferentResponsibilityRolesModelsAreasIdealsRole ModelsIdeal World Author:John Amaechi
“So the older models, when you look at Freudian, when you look at Jungian thought, and there's still people who really - who really use the Jungian thought of dream analysis, is really that you would analyze the dreams. The dreams are there for a purpose.” PeopleLooksStillsUseDreamPurposeModelsAnalysis Author:Shelby Harris
“When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this was in California. And he, I started reading him around that time, and then I went to Columbia as well, Trilling was still teaching there, I took a course with him. He was not a great teacher, but he was, when I was younger, he was a good model for the kind of criticism I wanted to do, because he thought very dialectically.” WellsKindStillsWantedYoungCoursesReadingTeacherTeachingStudentsCollegeModelsCriticismCaliforniaGreat TeacherColumbia Author:Louis Menand
“I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.” EconomicTelevisionGrewGrew UpModelsDrivenAdvertisingEconomic Models Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“Google has a very powerful and new advertising model that, for them, prints money.” PowerfulModelsAdvertisingPrintGoogleVery Powerful Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.” ThinkingKindSeemsFansModelsWaveFlamesTensionProductive Author:Jessica Valenti
“I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited, concerned with money and looks kind of thing that you'll see in a lot of reality shows. And I think that's really damaging, not just because it's a terrible role model to put forth, but that it also puts across this idea to the American public that this is what young women are like, that this is what all young women in America are like.” ThinkingLooksKindIdeasShowsRealityAmericaYoungCultureRolesTerribleModelsConcernedIdealsPopsRole ModelsYoung WomenWomanhoodPop CultureConceitedReality ShowsVapid Author:Jessica Valenti
“All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.” StarsRolesModelsRole ModelsDiscipleBaptistsArthurJohn The Baptist Author:Patti Smith
“Today, most models don't know the first thing about makeup. My mom taught me that makeup is supposed to enhance my natural beauty, not create a mask.” KnowsFirstsTodayNaturalTaughtMomModelsMy MomMaskMakeup Author:Christina Zilber
“For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel good to girls. That model doesn't let you say "I like it at second base, maybe I'll stay here."” FeelsYearsUsedGirlSexModelsUltimateBasesFeel GoodIntercourseAnalogies Author:Peggy Orenstein
“A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.” WayHelpingComedyDivineModelsGuidesUnderworldInfernoDivine Comedy Author:Edward Hirsch
“In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance.” WayNeedsWritingBookTurnsPoetCallingSixModelsRecognitionGuidanceEpicUnderworldInfernoAeneas Author:Edward Hirsch
“There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.” FirstsBookUseWalksAlivePoetModelsApprentice Author:Edward Hirsch
“I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish poetry and other Eastern European poetry and reading Russian poetry and reading Latin American and Spanish poetry and I've always found models in those other poetries of poets who could help me on my path.” HelpingReadingFoundLiteraturePathPoetAmountModelsHelp MeLatinEasternPolishLatin AmericaProvincesAmerican LiteratureLatin American Author:Edward Hirsch
“I think in terms of educating a group of readers, MFA programs are very good. I just think the model of MFA programs in which a young poet goes through the program, publishes a series of books, gets teaching jobs, that's a bit at risk.” ThinkingBookJobsYoungBitsTermRiskGroupsTeachingPoetReaderModelsProgramSeriesVery GoodPublish Author:Edward Hirsch
“You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.” MatterJobsInterestCommonBecomingCitizensSkillsModelsConcernedEducationalCriticalAccessSuburbsCommon GoodEducational SystemPublic InterestVanilla Author:Cornel West
“I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.” WritingSoulSelfHelpingTermJusticeDarkModelsCapacityCornersInsightMemoirSense Of SelfCapacity To LoveUndecidedLove Wisdom Author:Cornel West
“I was in a business for years where the stylist styled me, and I was wearing things from other designers. I was just there to be a conduit to those things. To be lucky enough to be embraced, having branched out from being a model, has been the greatest gift ever.” YearsHas BeensEnoughLuckyModelsDesignerGreatest GiftsStylist Author:Erin Wasson
“When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.” MenArmsModelsRaisesMusclesModelling Author:Grace Jones
“I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.” WorldFashionMonthsModelsDatingThrownFashion WorldStarlets Author:Stephen Dorff
“One day I went to the manager and I asked him whether his model was working and he said, "Well, haven't you seen how many customers we have in this store?" And yes indeed I had. I mean it was definitely attracting a lot of customers, even attracting tourist buses that would land up at this store and people would go through the store and marvel at all the options, even sometimes take photographs of the various aisles.” PeopleWellsMeanSaidSometimesLandHavensOne DayModelsPhotographVariousCustomersStoresManagersBusTouristsAisle Author:Sheena Iyengar