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• I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Children, Roles, Posters

  "Jennifer Aniston & Clive Owen Talk Derailed". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 09, 2005.

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• If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Money, Crazy, Cat

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• For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Children, Messi

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• Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

  Leon Spinks

  Kids, Needs, Roles

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• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  L. J. Smith

  Girl, Strong, Writing

  "'Vampire Diaries' author L.J. Smith weighs in on the series: 'They've done an incredible job of interpreting it'" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. September 24, 2009.

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• I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.

  Grace Helbig

  Thinking, Common Threads, People

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• I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

  Brandi Carlile

  Girl, Kids, Years

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• Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Growing Up, Father, Home

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• The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I want to be a role model and I want to show kids that you can be strong and overcome adversity.

  Paula Creamer

  Strong, Adversity, Kids

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• ... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Ambition, Race, People

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

  Lisa Leslie

  Play, Would Be, Roles

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• BenJarvus Green-Ellis was great to me. He's the type of person that you want to learn from because he understands the game and he's been in the league for a while. He's a great role model to a lot of guys on the team, including myself.

  Giovani Bernard

  Team, Games, League

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

  Curtis Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Decision

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• For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

  Hans Kung

  People, Roles, Moral

  "'A Putinization of the Catholic Church'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Ulrich Schwarz and Peter Wensierski, www.spiegel.de. September 21, 2011.

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• I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

  Rihanna

  Art, Stars, Fun

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Government, People, Giving

  "Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's Sister, On Her Brother and the Inauguration (and Wearing Sasha's Old Shoes!)". Interview with Glamour Magazine, www.glamour.com. January 20, 2013.

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• My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

  Tracy Morgan

  Stars, Dad, Father

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• I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

  Amanda Palmer

  Sexy, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.

  Ralph Strangis

  Teaching, Taken, Years

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• When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Strong, Nice

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I always tell myself that it is very, very important for me to be a good role model for Alma, my daughter.

  Gal Gadot

  Daughter, Important, Roles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Growing Up, Parent, Roles

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, Athlete, Successful

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• I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Opportunity, Race, Waiting

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