Models Quotes - Page 7

• So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

  Heidi Klum

  World, Runway, Intimidated

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• 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.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, People, Accountability

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• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Female Role Models, Southern

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• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Actresses, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

  Talib Kweli

  Teacher, Eye, Thinking

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• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Successful, College, Careers

  "Beautiful and damned". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

  Padma Lakshmi

  New York, Careers, Paris

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. December, 2007.

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• The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

  Artie Lange

  Morning, Real, Laughing

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• 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.

  Jessica Lange

  Successful, Years, Editors

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• The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Addiction, Ownership, Mass Consumption

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• I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

  Adam Levine

  Girlfriend, My Girlfriend

  "Inside Adam Levine's Private Life". Interview With Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 10, 2011.

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• The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Real, Drawing, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 38, 1799.

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• I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

  Jeremy Lin

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 18, 2012.

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• I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

  Jeremy Lin

  Role Models, Community, Asian

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• I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mistake, Fall, Responsibility

  "Jennifer Lopez Is Our October Cover Girl!". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.cosmopolitan.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

  Christian Louboutin

  Two Friends, People, Role Models

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• I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

  Demi Lovato

  Role Models, Roles, Kind

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• 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.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Issues, Role Models

  "Demi Lovato, at 19, takes control of her own life". Interview With Mesfin Fekadu, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I have always loved fashion, but I have no expertise in it besides being a model.

  Kellan Lutz

  Fashion, Expertise

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• Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Commitment, Long, Community

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• No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

  Shirley Manson

  Idols, Role Models, Musical

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• 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.

  Damian Marley

  Spiritual, Technology, Years

  "30 minutes with ... Damian Marley". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2012.

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• I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Fighter, Should

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Danica McKellar

  Years, Role Models, Parent

  "Danica McKellar Faces Backlash Over Maxim Spread, Has Advice For Miley Cyrus" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. June 04, 2010.

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• 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.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Cat, Math

  "Danica McKellar's Mathematical Theorem". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 11, 2006.

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