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• Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

  John Sununu

  Innovation, Environmental, Benefits

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• Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

  John Sununu

  Yellow, Fax Machines, Digital Revolution

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• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Real, Self

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• Faith Hill is a big role model.

  Taylor Swift

  Role Models, Roles, Hills

  "Taylor Swift Still Cares About Being A Role Model". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2011.

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• There's room for role models who make mistakes.

  Taylor Swift

  Mistake, Role Models, Roles

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• I think it's important that models be healthy.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Thinking, Healthy, Important

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• My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

  Daniel Tammet

  Mother, Perfect, Action

  "Daniel Tammet: 'Maths is as rich, inspiring and human as literature'". Interview with Adam Feinstein, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

  Lewis Thomas

  Communication, Technology, People

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

  Ashley Tisdale

  Mom, Role Models, Roles

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• What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

  Pete Townshend

  Order, People, Theatre

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• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Different, News, Entitlement

  "The future of newspapers, the end of journalism". Malcolm Turnbull's Speech to the Advanced Centre of Journalism at the University of Melbourne, www.abc.net.au. December 8, 2011.

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• 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.

  Tina Turner

  Girl, Dream, Pain

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• Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Character, People, Role Models

  Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

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• I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.

  Jimmy Wales

  Believe, Challenges, Important

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• I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.

  Johnny Weir

  Thinking, Males, Legs

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• The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

  Arsene Wenger

  Doe, Looks, World

  "ARSENE WENGER INTERVIEW: The full transcript of Martin Samuel's fascinating meeting with the Arsenal manager - part I". Interview with Martin Samuel, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 24, 2009.

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• The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

  Joss Whedon

  Running, People, Agendas

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke. An avid learner, he recognised responsibility and he was always fully committed.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Responsibility, Avid, Role Models

  "Howard Wilkinson on Gary Speed: 'He leaves a huge, huge void'" by Howard Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  Barry Williams

  Passion, Thinking, Role Models

  Archive for Category 'Ask Barry', www.thegregbradyproject.com.

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• I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

  Michelle Williams

  Broken, Typical, Littles

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• I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

  Robbie Williams

  Kids, Role Models, Roles

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• I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Mad, Looks

  "Serena's Glam Slam" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 3, 2010.

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• I understand that I'm a role model.

  Carnie Wilson

  Role Models, Roles

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• Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

  Amy Winehouse

  Musician, Causes, Posing

  "Amy Winehouse: Unplugged" by Polly Vernon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 14, 2010.

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