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Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

Anna Maria Chavez

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

L. J. Smith

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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

Tags: Who Our Other

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

Tags: Know Our Most

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

Tags: Home Some Many

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

Tags: You About More

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

Tags: Women Really Were

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

Tags: People Me Just

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

Tags: Had Our Way

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

Tags: Learning Famous Me

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

Tags: Positive You Think

One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.

Bill Dedman

Tags: He Now Come

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

Tags: Good You People

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

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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

Tags: Me Because Then

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

Tags: Me Just Because

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

Tags: Work Home Mom

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

Tags: Time Famous You

Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.

Andy Murray

Tags: Sports People Like

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

Amy Jo Martin

Tags: Work Great Business

The only thing I can give to young gay people is that when I was growing up, there were no role models that were blokey that were men. Everybody was flamboyant and camp, and I remember going, 'That's not me, so even though I think I am gay, I don't think I fit into this world.'

Russell Tovey

Tags: Men People Me

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

Tags: Smile Think Who

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

Tags: You About Think

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

Tags: Time Peace Trust

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