Models Quotes - Page 9

• If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.

  Katy Perry

  People, Role Models, Roles

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

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• The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Father, Role Models

  "Tyler Perry Transforms: From Madea To Family Man". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 15, 2012.

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• An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

  Steven Pinker

  Moon, Atoms, Ciphers

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• As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Long, Dots

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• 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.

  Kevin Powers

  Uncles, Father, Military

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• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Influence, Great Literary

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• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  People, Role Models, Wish

  "The World's Coolest Queen". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Sports, Volleyball, Athlete

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• 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.

  Ann Richards

  Inspirational, Mistake, Believe

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• 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!

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Doors

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• Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect.

  ASAP Rocky

  Mean, People, Role Models

  "ASAP Rocky on gay rights: 'I treat everybody equal'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I wanted to model when I was younger.

  ASAP Rocky

  Wanted

  "Rock the Boat". www.gq.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Strong Women, Strong, Five

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• Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

  Wayne Rooney

  Dad, Mean, Son

  "Wayne Rooney: I've Given it all up for Kai, Coleen and World Cup Glory". www.mirror.co.uk. May 9, 2010.

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• If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

  Portia de Rossi

  Style, Trying, Magazines

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

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• Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

  Rachel Roy

  Long, Honest, Designer

  "Estelle and Rachel Roy Talk About Their New Jewelry Line at Macy's". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  Ja Rule

  Inspiration, Kids, Role Models

  "Ja Rule: The ‘I’m In Love With A Church Girl’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. October 13, 2013.

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• And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Role Models

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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• I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Believe, Home

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Fiction, Might

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• There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.

  George Saunders

  Real, Community, Different

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