Roles Quotes - Page 9

• I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Past, Crosses, Taboo

  "Neil Patrick Harris Interview, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas". Roundtable interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

  Mila Kunis

  Believe, Thinking, Perfect

  "Mila Kunis Interview, Black Swan". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2010.

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• Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

  Indra Nooyi

  Couple, School, Play

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• It's really neat when you become a role model. It's also a lot of responsibility. But if you see it as a platform where you can pour into others for Jesus with love, that's where I want to be. Becoming known or noticed in my sport isn't what drives me to work hard and want to be the best I can be. It's Jesus. That's why I play. I play to glorify Him. I worship Him with the gifts I've been given.

  Tobin Heath

  Sports, Jesus, Responsibility

  Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Pregnancy, Exercise

  "Anna Friel: I'm up for a nip/tuck - it can knock 10 years off you". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 20, 2008.

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• I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what any role does for me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Careers, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Leader, Should

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.

  Mila Kunis

  Like You, Feels, Can Do

  "Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis dish Black Swan". Interview with Lynn Barker, www.sheknows.com. November 30, 2010.

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• There are so many wonderful classic roles, but I also would be really interested in developing something brand new. I think my heart would probably be in developing something brand new; I think that sounds really exciting.

  Sara Bareilles

  Heart, Thinking, Sound

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Many times people will say, you know, you're such a great role model. Well, that's great, but at the end of the day, you have to learn to be your own best role model and learn what makes you happy, not necessarily what society thinks you're supposed to be or women that you look up to, what they're doing. I look at that as being a symbol in a blueprint, but never forget that who you are is what's most important.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Thinking, People, Role Models

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

  Jimmy Carter

  Men, Views, Atheism

  "The words of God do not justify cruelty to women". theelders.org. July 12, 2009.

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• What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Leadership, War, Successful

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• To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

  Kenneth Clark

  Fall, Defying, Human Life

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• I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho

  John Hawkes

  People, Nerd, Austin

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• I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.

  James Brown

  Son, Thinking, People

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• One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

  Robert Hughes

  Music, Tired, Player

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• I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

  Scott Walker

  Believe, Government, Play

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• To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Views, Liberty

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• The gospel is unintelligible to most people today, especially in the West, because their own particular stories are remote from the story of creation, fall, redemption, and consummation that is narrated in the Bible. Our focus is introspective and narrow, confided to our own immediate knowledge, experience, and intuition. Trying desperately to get others, including God, to make us happy, we cannot seem to catch a glimpse of the real story that gives us a meaningful role.

  Michael Horton

  Meaningful, Real, Fall

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• My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

  Ross Perot

  Oysters, Pearls, Roles In Life

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• My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

  Ryan White

  Honor, Important, Study

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• We live increasingly in a system in which little direct attention is paid to the object, the function, the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, the procedure, prestige, and profit.

  Paul Goodman

  Tasks, Needs, Attention

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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• I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.

  Fred Wilson

  Believe, Play, Numbers

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• Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

  John Eldredge

  Design, Would Be, Asking

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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