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• What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

  Nathan Oliveira

  Creating, Metaphor, Figures

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• A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Color, Focus, Design

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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  Arthur Ashe

  Leadership, Basketball, Education

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• There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

  Bell Hooks

  Effort, Understanding, Way

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• It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Art, Use, Development

  Rudolf Steiner (2003). “Art: An Introductory Reader”, p.146, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet.

  Cameron Russell

  Insecure, Planets

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• I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.

  John Christy

  Real, Climate, World

  "Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds". Interview with Maxim Lott, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

  Gerhard Richter

  Reality, Abstract, Existence

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 07, 2013

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Family, Education, Wisdom

  Nobody Knows My Name (1961) "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem"

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  Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Mother, Children

  "Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden". Book by Bonita Jean Zimmer (p. 182), April 2003.

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

  Rosa Parks

  Life, Morning, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Young people need models, not critics.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Youth Of Today, Nba

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

  Tiger Woods

  Positive, Thinking, Light

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Powerful, Role Models

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• For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Artist, Gourmet

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1844, Delphi Classics

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• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Years, Ten

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Children

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• The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

  Robert Henri

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

  PJ Harvey

  Role Models, Progress, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Did you know children are dying because of AIDS. Missing the medicines that prevent transmission from mother to child. Missing the protection from parents teachers and role models that can teach them about the danger, and keep them safe from sexual exploitation. Children are missing your support. Unite for children. Unite against AIDS.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Excitement, Starting

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Father, Men

  Barack Obama's Father’s Day speech, www.nytimes.com. June 15, 2008.

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• An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Reality, Looks

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