“I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.” PeopleYoungCultureStreetsComfortableModelsSkinsMeetingsWestJewIsraelResistanceObsessedBobPalestinianCastingJerusalemMarley Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.” PeopleShouldImportantYoungRolesModelsAspectRole ModelsBoxers Author:Alexander Povetkin
“There isn't any problem with little girls. And there isn't any problem with young women or adult women. I mean, they are model citizens. It's the guys that create all of the problems in our culture. And so it's the guys that have to be reprogrammed. Not the women.” MeanLittlesProblemYoungGuyCultureGirlCitizensModelsAdultsYoung Women Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.” KnowsMenYoungCommunityRolesTeacherModelsHip HopVideoHipsYoung ManHopsRole ModelsBe You Author:Steve Harvey
“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.” PeopleThinkingHumansLastsYoungValuesPowerfulForeverSonCostDrugMessagesModelsDaughterAddRichesOur SocietyLastingContributingDealerDeliveringEphemeralHuman ValuesSon And DaughterDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“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
“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.” PeopleImportantSchoolYoungModelsStandardsTestsExcitingMethodFactorsEducatedAccountabilityUrbanBusiness ModelsSuccess Or Failure Author:Jonathan Kozol
“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.” FeelsYoungGirlRolesIssuesHealthyEatingModelsHeyMealsRole Models Author:Demi Lovato
“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.” ThinkingYoungGirlActingRolesStudyPositionUniqueModelsCatMathematicsMathRole ModelsGlamorous Author:Danica McKellar
“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.” WayHas BeensYoungFatherCareersRolesMilitaryModelsMy FamilyArmyMalesSoldierRole ModelsGrandfatherAdulthoodUnclesMarineMy GrandfatherWwiiArrivingMarine CorpsMale Role Models Author:Kevin Powers
“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.” PeopleKnowsInspirationalBelieveYoungI BelieveMistakeResponsibilityRolesModelsI Believe InRecoveryRole Models 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!” ThinkingLittlesImportantYoungGirlWalksViewsRolesGrowing UpGrowingProudModelsPoint Of ViewRole ModelsYoung WomenWalks Of LifeGirls Growing Up Author:Sally Ride
“Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.” InspirationKidsYoungRolesModelsRole Models Author:Ja Rule
“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.” PeopleLooksMadeImportantYoungDecisionBusinessRolesHavensModelsLook UpRole ModelsCockyBad DecisionWrong DecisionGood Role Models Author:Justin Bieber
“Young people need models, not critics.” PeopleNeedsYoungYouthBasketballModelsCriticsCoachingNbaYouth Of Today Book:They Call Me Coach Source: They Call Me Coach
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.” PeopleWorldWritingFirstsKindArtBookFilmYoungCultureEnergyMusicStepsCreativityTalentDemandModelsPaintThriveFirst Steps Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.” LooksHeartMayYoungMotherValuesCultureLordRolesPerspectiveMy HeartPleaseEternalModelsStandardsDearPatternsContemporaryFaithfulUrgesRole ModelsMentorYoung Women Author:M. Russell Ballard
“As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.” PeopleChildrenJobsYoungParentRolesBasketballModelsMy ChildrenRole ModelsExtensionsBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballBasketball Coach Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.” MayPersonsBookRealReasonInspirationYoungArtistGrowsGoalCan DoExistenceLeaderRolesGrowing UpDoubtExamplePossibilityNewsModelsScientistRemainsLawyerFleshLike MeRealmsAbstractRole ModelsBeing RealGiftedAspireInfluentialConfirmationSaying Yes Book:My Beloved World Source: My Beloved World