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We need role models who are going to break the mold. -- Carly Simon
Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence -- Tara Fela-Durotoye
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models. -- Lee Haney
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is. -- Walter Payton
The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to. -- Andrew Shue
I worked with Seann William Scott on 'Role Models,' and his arms are tatted up. He had to come to set an hour-and-a-half early to get them covered. It's not worth it. I want that extra hour of sleep. -- Christopher Mintz-Plasse
I never thought a role model should be negative. -- Michael Jordan
You must show the world that you abhor fighting. -- Desmond Tutu
I feel like I'm a very good role model for women. -- Blu Cantrell
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. -- Charles Barkley
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! -- Maya Angelou
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. -- Clint Eastwood
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress. -- PJ Harvey
I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. -- Madeleine Albright
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them. -- Denzel Washington
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. -- Tupac Shakur
Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals! -- Miranda Lambert
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. -- Malcolm Boyd
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else. -- Britney Spears
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
The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers! -- Dante Hall
Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League. -- Tony Dungy
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about. -- Tiger Woods
We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. -- Alain de Botton
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not? -- LeBron James
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. -- Joyce Carol Oates
My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people. -- Magnus Scheving
Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women. -- Kelley Armstrong
I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. -- Wale
Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent. -- Bob Keeshan
Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me. -- Justin Bieber
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met. -- John Wilson
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
My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in. -- Brenda Brathwaite
I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models. -- Bailey Chase
I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were. -- Larry Ellison
I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later. -- Kevin James
Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand. -- Tracy Pollan
Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too. -- James Patterson
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
I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know? -- Bethany Hamilton
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
Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example. -- Jonathan Vilma
It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I'm going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I'm able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through. -- Bethany Hamilton
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge. -- Barbara Park
So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart. -- Tina Turner
We rappers are role models. -- Kanye West
My role models have kept on changing. -- Kapil Dev
We have to have positive male role models. -- Donald Miller
There's room for role models who make mistakes. -- Taylor Swift
The world needs role models, instead of critics. -- Denis Waitley
Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors. -- Anna Maria Chavez
The hustlers on the corner were my role models. -- The Notorious B.I.G.
Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes. -- Liza M. Wiemer
I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous. -- Rupert Everett
I did have role models, but most of them were male. -- Emily Robison
Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk. -- Clare Balding
How come we play war and not peace?Too few role models. -- Bill Watterson
How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models. -- Bill Watterson
Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models. -- Marian Wright Edelman
People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models. -- Andrew Shue
Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine -- Common
Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it. -- Lana Del Rey
But I think role models also start in the home with your parents. -- Dominique Wilkins
In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers. -- Mary Cheney
To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models. -- Jack Canfield
Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see. -- Chelsea Clinton
We need more drag king role models for all those interested in the art -- BeBe Zahara Benet
People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives. -- Coretta Scott King
We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool. -- David First
Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be -- Prince Ea
I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing. -- Leah Busque
One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models -- Epictetus
I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women. -- Agyness Deyn
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls. -- L. J. Smith
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models... -- Charles Barkley
My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models. -- Barack Obama
Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models. -- Kumar Sangakkara
Strippers should be role-models for little girls. If only for the fact that they wax their assholes. -- Sarah Silverman
I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models. -- Sarah Palin
I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models. -- Lily Allen
One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch. -- Rafael van der Vaart
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people. -- Magnus Scheving
The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation. -- Robert H. Frank
I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models. -- John Amaechi
There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men. -- Catherine Deneuve
Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world. -- Chip Conley
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.' -- Queen Rania of Jordan
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around. -- Keri Russell
People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I'm just happy to inspire growth and positivity. -- Chris Brown
Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads. -- Ashley Graham
We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good. -- Tony Dungy
I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it. -- Brian Michael Bendis
Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book. -- Connor Ripley
Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices. -- Benjamin Carson
All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars. -- Patti Smith
From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales, -- Jeffrey Kluger
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world. -- Meryl Streep
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. -- Bill Bradley
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role models. -- Mac Barnett
Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters. -- Ann Landers
We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum. -- Patricia Sequeira Belvel
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? -- John Waters
We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state. -- Tim Pawlenty
I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination. -- Jonathan Brandis
They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for. -- Miley Cyrus
I just hate that gay role models are supposed to be just like straight people, as if even straight people are like that. -- Paul Rudnick
My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all. -- Jennifer Beals
My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be. -- Hrithik Roshan
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models. -- Willie Aames
Clearly, I'm committed to women's issues and stories and promoting gender equality. I have two incredible role models in Jenji [Kohan] and Shonda [Rhimes]. -- Alysia Reiner
I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron." -- Alexandra Daddario
I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see. -- Chelsea Clinton
Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. -- Pranab Mukherjee

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