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• The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

  Bono

  Beautiful, Self, Able

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• Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Brother, Teenager, Emotional

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• ...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.

  Steve Toltz

  Sports, Hate, Environmental

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here" "How do you know the bike model?" I asked. "I'm a boy. We like engines

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Stars, Boys, Soon Enough

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Halo: Number 1 in series”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54).

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Example, Redemption

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• The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken it well. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.

  Jana Oliver

  Cute, Taken, Adorable

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used. He had retrieved several of his arrows from the nearest target and now he had one of them ready, laid on the bowstring. Halt glanced around approvingly. "Good idea," he said. "Aim for the left calf. It's a very painful wound.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Voice, Arrows

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• I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.

  Jo Nesbo

  Burden Of Proof, Common Sense, Heaven

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• I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue. "Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up.

  Kristin Cashore

  Feel Better, Long, People

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.333, Penguin

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• People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Growing Up, Good Life, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1730, Random House

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• My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Book, Men, Opposites

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• If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

  John Green

  Girl, Hate, Mean

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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• She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the winner is... seventy-three!

  Steven Levenkron

  Cutting, Two, Mind

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• Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Ally’s model book. “I like the family that comes together in the barn,” Ally said without hesitation. “I like that they aren’t all the same thing; one is human and one’s a spider and one’s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.

  Meg Waite Clayton

  Morning, Book, Thinking

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• Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Needs

  "Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism". Book edited by Tess Williams, 1999.

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• These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Dream, Fashion, Bags

  "Karl Lagerfeld says only 'fat mummies' object to thin models" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2009.

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• Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Hair, Flames, White

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• I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Too Much, Cheeseburger

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.82, Macmillan

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• You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

  David Bowie

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• 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.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Real, Inspiration

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.178, Vintage

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• Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.

  Robin Sloan

  Girl, Thinking, Google

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Imitation cannot go above its model.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imitation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.143, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I love you Rush Finlay. You are going to be the best husband and father the world has ever known. One day our son’s wife will be thankful that her husband will have had you for a role model. She’ll be lucky because of you. Because you will have raised our son to be the man that you are. He’ll love her completely because he’ll know how.

  Abbi Glines

  Husband, Father, Love You

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Fallen Too Far Trilogy: Includes Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far”, p.450, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Light, Role Models

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