#role models

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model. ↗

— Ville Valo

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

— Catherine Deneuve

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But I think role models also start in the home with your parents. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors. ↗

— Salma Hayek

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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

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

— Mary Cheney

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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

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I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother. ↗

— John Lone

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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

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Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

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