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“There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?”

“People always ask me about the role models that I'm providing for kids, and I say I can't be concerned with that. I'm not worrying about corrupting youth. I'm worrying about writing realistically and truthfully to affect the reader.”

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Author:Robert Cormier

“I look at my kids as the Harry Potter Generation. There's a sense of justice about that, in beating Voldemort. It's a classic tale of good versus evil. To have a role model like Harry Potter that says you can defeat evil, but still be a complicated human being. That gives me a lot of hope.”

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Author:Mike Dirnt

“I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn't feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.”

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Author:Rowan Blanchard

“My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.”

“I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.”

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Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.”

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Author:Jeremy Lin

“I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.”

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Author:Jeremy Lin

“I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.”

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Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.”

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Author:Christian Louboutin

“I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.”

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Author:Demi Lovato

“I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.”

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Author:Demi Lovato

“I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.”

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Author:Shirley Manson

“I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

“I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

“My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.”

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Author:Solomon Ortiz

“My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.”

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Author:PSY

“I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”

“I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.”

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Author:Sean Paul

“If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.”

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Author:Tyler Perry

“The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood.”

“My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'”

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Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”

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Author:Ann Richards

“I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!”

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Author:Sally Ride

“Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.”

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Author:ASAP Rocky

“Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.”

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Author:Wayne Rooney

“Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.”

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Author:Ja Rule

“And to this day, my Mom is my role model.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.”

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Author:Andrew Shue

“We need role models who are going to break the mold.”

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Author:Carly Simon

“I want to be a role model.”

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Author:Jessica Simpson

“It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.”

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Author:Britney Spears

“It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.”

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Author:Angie Stone

“Faith Hill is a big role model.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“There's room for role models who make mistakes.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.”

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Author:Ashley Tisdale

“So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.”

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Author:Tina Turner

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