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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls. — L.J.Smith

The child accepts role models of parental behavior unconsciously and without thinking — Sunday Adelaja

We rappers are role models. — Kanye West

We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good. — Tony Dungy

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. — Mindy Kaling

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked. — George Carlin

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers. — Mary Cheney

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good. — Brian Molko

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. — Charles Barkley

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars. — Patti Smith

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player! — Jack Wilshere

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents. — Dominique Wilkins

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence — Fela Durotoye

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say, — Jalen Rose

How can I be a man if there is no role model? — Tupac Shakur

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around. — Keri Russell

I don't really consider myself a celebrity. I consider myself more of a role model. — Lisa Leslie

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis. — Malcolm Gladwell

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can. — Selena

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years. — Xavi

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.' — Queen Rania Of Jordan

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see. — Chelsea Clinton

I love having fans of all ages but it's especially cool for me to have young fans. I hope to be a role model for kids who want to follow their dreams. — Hoodie Allen

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives. — Coretta Scott King

How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models. — Bill Watterson

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

Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book. — Connor Ripley

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models. — Barack Obama

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you — Luke Wood

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

My parents are my role models. All they've done for me, they're just major people in my life. They've stood by me and got me where I am today. — Keke Palmer

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

The best business models become role models for others. — David Hieatt

I like the idea of being a role model. It's an honor. — Tiger Woods

They need a role model. They need a star! — Imelda Marcos

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies. — Sidney Altman

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous. — Rupert Everett

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models. — Camille Paglia

My biggest role model? Def my Mom and my sisters! — Kendall Jenner

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors. — Anna Maria Chavez

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings. — Tupac Shakur

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world. — Meryl Streep

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

The world needs role models, instead of critics. — Denis Waitley

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk. — Clare Balding

We need role models who are going to break the mold. — Carly Simon

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide. — Wilma Rudolph

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it. — Lana Del Rey

I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration. — Tairrie B

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

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world. — Chip Conley

I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone. — Kristina Schroder

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody! — Lauren Hutton

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

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 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

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model. — Ben Horowitz

I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles. — Noam Chomsky

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. — Charles Barkley

A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on. — Heather Dale

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what. — Jodi Picoult

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes — Bertolt Brecht

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men. — Catherine Deneuve

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. — Marian Wright Edelman

If young kids choose to have me as a role model ... what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes. — Anne Hathaway

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

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes. — Liza M. Wiemer

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

When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as. — Mario Chalmers

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. — Roald Dahl

Simply be the qualities you seek in others. — Wayne Dyer

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high. — Molly Ringwald

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do? — Barry Deutsch

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change. — Emmanuel Jal

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 just hate that gay role models are supposed to be just like straight people, as if even straight people are like that. — Paul Rudnick

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James Baldwin

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them. — Armistead Maupin

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble. — Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models. — Marian Wright Edelman

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal. — Andie MacDowell

Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well. — Robin Hoyle

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models. — Claudia Rankine

Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future. — Thomas McKinnon Wood

Annika's my role model, and I wish in the future I could be like her. — Yani Tseng

I am not a role model. — Mike Tyson

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

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent. — Kathleen Hanna

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold. — Natalie Portman

Disappointments are worse when they are caused by the people who should be your role models. — Abdullah Abu Snaineh

I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing. — Lamar Odom

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models. — John Amaechi

We need role models who look like real girls. — Georgia Clark

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people. — Magnus Scheving