“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.” PeopleThinkingKindFunStuffInterestingMillionsBandModelsMeetingsClubsDancerBe KindJust BeingBizarreReally InterestingPlayboyGroupie Author:Cassandra Peterson
“It’s an interesting sign of the times that models are being booked for jobs and covers because of their following on a social media platform, I walked in the Balmain show for Olivier Rousteing. If you rounded up all the numbers of the majority of his line-up, there would be upwards of 10, 15 million followers.” IfsShowsWould BeJobsSocialLinesInterestingNumbersMillionsMediaModelsMajorityFollowingSocial MediaFollowersPlatforms Author:Karlie Kloss
“I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.” IfsMenMayRealBodyActorsStarsRolesMillionsFrontsFineDegreesModelsShotsStandingPaidCamerasHeatRole ModelsArmorGrimace Author:Ben Stein
“Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central insight of cultural anthropology: that varying cultural patterns express an underlying human unity. She mastered her discipline, but she also transcended it. Intrepid, independent, plain spoken, fearless, she remains a model for the young and a teacher from whom all may learn.” HumansMayYoungMillionsTeacherStudentsDisciplineCivilizationModelsIndependentRemainsUnityPatternsInsightFearlessAnthropologyMead Author:Margaret Mead
“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHas BeensRealSchoolMillionsFiveProductsDevelopmentHighestModelsPercentThirdsThreatMeetingsRateDefeatPrimariesVietnamAsiaLiteracyGrossThird WorldBasic NeedsUnescoSecondary SchoolEnrollment Author:John Pilger
“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.” PeopleCountryAmericaMillionsEconomyEconomicModelsEuropeUnionsSovietSoviet UnionStarvingFamine1930sEconomic SystemsFarmland Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt) Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.” BelieveHas BeensMadeGivenNationsWishChanceMillionsModelsWinePatternsChiefsAssimilation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“What is the value of having millions of people in Iraq not having a repressive regime? What is the value of having the Iraqi regime not shooting at UK and US aircraft almost every day? What is the value of the Iraqis having a free press? What is the value of the foreign minister of Iraq going to Paris, calling for an end of the Gadhafi regime and citing Iraq as a model, as an example, that in fact a freer political system can exist in that part of the world?” PeopleWorldEndsFactsPoliticalValuesMillionsExampleCallingModelsPressesIraqShootingMinistersParisRegimesPolitical SystemsAircraftFree PressCiting Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“Even after I had just done Twilight, which made $400 million at the worldwide box office, I could not get financing for three or four projects that I really loved and I thought people would love because they didn't fit some studio or investor's model of thinking, "This will definitely make money." It's a business and a film does potentially cost millions of dollars, and they have to think that they're going to get their money back somehow.” PeopleThinkingDoeMadeDoneFilmThreeLove IsMillionsFourFitCostOfficeProjectsModelsDollarsBoxesStudiosMaking MoneyInvestorsTwilightFinancingBox Office Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?” IfsBelieveReasonWantedI BelieveMillionsFashionIndustryModelsDecidedResponsibleDollarsDon't BelieveConsumersTrendsSkinnyMillion DollarsDinosaurs Author:Kelly Cutrone
“In the Navy, I was introduced to the modeling world and something I never thought I would do in a million years. I never thought about doing it...I was kind of against doing it for a while until he introduced me to an agent. I went down to this big event (and they wanted me as a model) So, I was getting out of the military and decided to take that opportunity.” WorldYearsKindBigsWantedOpportunityMillionsMilitaryEventsModelsDecidedAgentsNavyModelingBig Events Author:Drew Waters
“The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people ... well, I hope they do that.” PeopleIfsWellsMillionsTypeModelsStudiosFamiliar Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them whatever you can, hamburgers and KFCs. Its the middle classes who have moved into being able to own a car, a refrigerator. For them there is this mantra that the General Electric refrigerator is better than some other model, that the Cielo car is fancier than the Ambassador.” IfsAbleClassMillionsEconomyMiddleCarModelsIndiaSellsMovedConsumersMiddle ClassElectricEmergingMantrasAmbassadorsRefrigeratorsHamburgersKfcVolvoGeneral ElectricEmerging Economies Author:Vandana Shiva
“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
“I'm happy with the way I did my career, I wouldn't change it in a million years. I got to do the real grafting and learning from real models when I was younger - how to open up a jacket, walk, and such.” WayYearsRealWalksCareersMillionsModelsJacketsGrafting Author:Naomi Campbell
“That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksKindMadeFactsUseMightInterestCan DoImaginationHalfMillionsModelsStonesBrandsFixedParksConcertsRollingRevenueCubaFeesRolling StonesCentral Park Author:Martin Sorrell
“The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.” KnowsStillsRealGuyMorningMillionsLaughingKnow HowTalentModelsRelatePlumberLimosReal Talent Author:Artie Lange
“If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.” IfsKindWould BeMillionsRecordsModelsSellsVersionsLuxuryTeenagerIf I Could Author:Alanis Morissette