#model

If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result. ↗

— Leonard Sax

#parenting #role-models #men

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#extension #i #job #model #other

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #finding #layman #modeling #perspective

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#fashion #glamorous #glass #hand #memory

In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working. ↗

— Devon Aoki

#big #big challenge #challenge #clothes #doing

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#committed #georgia #government #honest #i

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#role-models #greed

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#anymore #cover #i #i think #illustrated

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#allows #beginning #between #end #everything

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#behind #curtain #design #graphic #graphic design