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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
Abby Wambach
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick
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
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.


L. J. Smith
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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
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Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.


Anna Maria Chavez
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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
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That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.
Stephen Bayley
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My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.


Shirley Temple
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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.
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An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.


Peter Thiel
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Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
Beth Ditto
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When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.
Ava DuVernay
With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.
Michelle Obama
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I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.
Christopher Parker
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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
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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
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I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
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I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece.
Nora Ephron
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No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there's a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I'd've turned on to that.
Jay-Z
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