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• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

  Abraham Verghese

  Uncles, School, Physicians

  "A Novel That's the Best Medicine". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. February 11, 2009.

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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 never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

  Tatyana Ali

  School, Parent, Roles

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• I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role model for my family and for other African Americans.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Country, Art, Strong

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• My life has definitely changed since 'Modern Family.' The show has made me more responsible, I really want to be a good role model for all kids so I have to think about what I say and do and how it looks to other kids!

  Ariel Winter

  Kids, Thinking, Modern Family

  "Exclusive: Ariel Winter of Modern Family". Interview, www.seventeen.com. February 16, 2011.

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• The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.

  Aubrey Plaza

  School, Laughing, Roles

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• To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, Roles, Accepting

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• My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Virginia, Roles, Bronte

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

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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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• Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

  Treat Williams

  Roles, Honest, Knows

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• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  Larisa Oleynik

  Mom, Attitude, Silly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

  John Lone

  Mother, Father, Home

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

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• First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

  Bruce Jenner

  Trying, Roles, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did have role models, but most of them were male.

  Emily Robison

  Males, Roles, Models

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• Playing Unique hasn’t changed how I feel about myself, but it has changed how I hold myself. Unique is so confident that I found myself [saying], ‘You need to be the role model that your character intends you to be.’

  Alex Newell

  Character, Unique, Needs

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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, Design

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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, Wish, Roles

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

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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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• I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

  Kesha

  Perfect, Roles, Honest

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

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• My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.

  David C. Driskell

  Teacher, Dad, People

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hero, Mean, Roles

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities. I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable. I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him. Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way... it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things.

  Adrian Matejka

  Character, Kids, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Art, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

  Emma Watson

  People, Failing, Call Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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