“You know why they say that, that models are too skinny? Because parents are horrible, they can't tell their sixteen year old daughter she's not really a princess, well guess what, I can.” KnowsYearsWellsI CanParentModelsDaughterHorriblePrincessSkinnySixteenSixteen Year Olds Author:Daniel Tosh
“I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.” MenYearsPersonsStillsSometimesRolesTeacherTaughtModelsBe GoodGood ManRole ModelsPrincipalGood PersonBeing A Good PersonGreat Role ModelsPositive Role ModelGreat Positive Author:Kevin James
“The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming - there hasn't been any for 17 years now - quite a bit higher than it is likely to be.” YearsShowsBitsPresidentNumbersHigherDegreesComputerModelsAssumingEnvironmentalRateProtectionAgencyGlobal WarmingPresident ObamaRegulationCalculationsEnvironmental ProtectionEpa Author:Patrick Michaels
“It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those models developed 50 to 60 years after his.” YearsModelsAvailableHayek Author:Joaquin Fuster
“I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.” GivingYearsLongMadeI CanWarHardStarsStuffCan DoModelsGive MeDrawingMakersPropsSculptorsReplicateCranesI Can Do ThisScaffolding Author:Adam Savage
“I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about how to go about in the record business you would get 5 years ago is no longer valid. Everything is changing very rapidly and there is an increased sense of anger and despair among artists that are not major-selling megastars.” IfsKnowsYearsArtistRecordsPiecesAdviceRight NowDespairMajorsModelsYears AgoSelling Author:Olof Arnalds
“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 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
“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
“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
“I don't see what the alternative to risk management is. If it's just getting rid of the models and instead using the smart people who can figure it out? How do you train them? What do you teach them? Do you just put them in a cockpit and let them stumble for 10 years of their life and then after that they're good at it?” PeopleIfsYearsTeachRiskFiguresModelsSmartManagementTrainAlternativesRisk ManagementSmart PeopleCockpit Author:Robert F. Engle
“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
“I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.” PeopleYearsMy OwnKnownOpinionHairOne DayClothesModelsShotsBritishMuseumsChloeVogue Author:Nan Goldin
“I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.” ThinkingWayYearsWholeUsedGirlBornModelsMales80sGorgeousModelingSlow MotionTranssexualsSlinkies Author:Nan Goldin
“I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.” YearsHas BeensPastBlackPaintingModelsSkinsBrownBrown Skin Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I think, cumulatively, I probably have done more photo sessions than just about everyone. Maybe as much as a supermodel. I know they model all the time, but have they done it for 35 years? I don't think so.” ThinkingKnowsYearsDoneModelsSessionSupermodel Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsYearsKindBigsActionComedyEventsModelsStandardsTheaterStudiosVampireBudgetsBroadsGoing To WorkSpidersAction MovieSpider ManBig Events Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.” ThinkingYearsLittlesPlayGirlRolesWillingHairModelsGrayRole ModelsRockstarsGood Role Models Author:Emily Haines
“My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.” ThinkingYearsRememberUsedFatherHouseMemoriesRoomsSeeingBuildingModelsIraqArchitectureDrawingArchitectAuntLiving RoomIntriguedClose Friends Author:Zaha Hadid
“In the case of [Antonio] Gramsci, the Fascist government agreed that he was a "model intellectual" in [Edward] Said's sense, and for that reason determined, in their words, that "we must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years."” YearsSaidReasonGovernmentBrainCasesIntellectualModelsTwentiesDeterminedFascistsAntonio Author:Noam Chomsky
“The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.” YearsWellsKindHardAmericaPoliticalBlackLinesWhiteEffortSupportBecomingDegreesModelsBottomComplicatedBottom LineBlack White Author:Barack Obama
“My Big Mama is my No. 1 financial role model. Much of my advice stems from what she taught me. She never made more than $13,000 a year, yet she paid off her home before she retired. She saved money from every paycheck. She taught me to be skeptical. It makes me cry to think that I'm a nationally syndicated personal finance columnist for one of the world's best newspapers and my core advice comes from my black grandmother who was a nurse's aide with just a high school education.” ThinkingWorldYearsMadeHomeBigsSchoolBlackRolesAdviceCryTaughtModelsHigh SchoolPaidFinancialSavedCoreNewspapersFinanceGrandmotherRole ModelsNurseStemRetiredSkepticalMamaPaychecksColumnistsSchool EducationPersonal FinancePaid OffBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“The only basis for even talking about global warming is the predictions spewed out by computer models. The only quote/unquote "evidence" of global warming is what models are predicting the climate and the weather will be in the next 50 to 100 years. Now, what those models spit out is only as good as the data that's put in, and it's an absolute joke. In terms of science, it's a total joke. There is no warming, global or otherwise!” YearsNextTermTalkingComputerModelsJokesEvidenceBasesAbsolutesClimateWeatherDataGlobal WarmingPredictionsSpitPredicting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was on one bus with my band and crew for seven years. I didn't come to town with a karaoke tape. I didn't get on a TV show. There were no shortcuts. Anybody who wants to follow my model is welcome to it. You don't want to follow my path.” WantYearsShowsPathTvsBandModelsTownsSevenWelcomeBusTapeTv ShowsCrewSeven YearsShortcutsKaraoke Author:Kenny Chesney
“We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.” YearsLittlesAbleYoungBitsOughtLittle BitModelsWeightStudiosDimensionsPotArrogantClayArrivingPotteryDaily Work Author:Warren MacKenzie
“These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.” PeopleIfsWayYearsLooksHeartTwoLastsChurchLessonsTenModelsTwentiesMajorityConservativeReformMinistersDramaticThirtyPriestsOverwhelmingBishopsThirty YearsJohn PaulLearning LessonsJohn Paul Ii Author:George Weigel
“As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media, before the world was what the world is, but even then it was terrifying, to be 18 years old and people knowing who you are, and I was this personality who was completely devoid of who I actually was. It was almost like being a manufactured boy band. You're sort of like a wind up doll; they wind you up and put you on the runway or something like that.” PeopleWorldYearsSocialBoysKnowingMediaWindPersonalityBandModelsWho You AreSocial MediaDollsRunwayKnowing Who You AreBoy Bands Author:Karen Elson
“Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.” YearsPersonsSuccessfulPiecesModelsThirdsPainfulMythEditorsMerchandiseThird Person Author:Jessica Lange
“People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.” PeopleIfsYearsAsksActingCareersModelsAsk MeModeling Author:Tyra Banks
“A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.” PeopleTryingYearsMightSpiritualSpiritualitySoundTechnologyEconomicMankindRevolutionEvolutionModelsYears AgoHeightDreamerEconomic ModelsSpiritual Change Author:Damian Marley
“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.” IfsShouldYearsStillsParentRolesModelsAskingSpreadRole ModelsEmailMaxims Author:Danica McKellar
“What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.” NeedsYearsWellsFactsLastsBusinessDemandModelsCustomersEducateLast YearNeed YouCheaper Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay
“The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.” YearsFactsHandsAbleClearModelsPhysicsFortyInterpretationQuantumMetaphysicsMetaphysicalPhysicistQuantum Physics Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“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.” IfsThinkingYearsHeartKindPersonsDreamPainGirlCoursesWishPresidentEmotionTalkingRolesWifeFieldsModelsYears AgoFarmsRole ModelsFarm Girl Author:Tina Turner
“He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.” YearsLooksAgeLastsUsedEvilChangedCollegeHairSummerModelsMalesUsed To BeShirtsVillainPantsButtonsT ShirtHarvardFashionableLeatherShowing OffShortsSandyUnrulyLast SummerLoafersBermuda Book:The Sea of Monsters Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.” ThinkingGivingWritingYearsBelieveHeartKindLittlesStatesStoriesEyeSpeakUnitedUnited StatesCarPoetReaderModelsRiversDon't BelieveFishesWideDrivingImpressionJournalistFishingReverenceDaddyEyes Wide Open Author:Charles Simic
“He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.” YearsAgeEvilCollegeModelsMalesVillainHarvardFashionableShowing Off Book:The Sea of Monsters Source: The Sea of Monsters