Phil McGraw Quotes

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

Phil McGraw

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• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Model

• I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Free
  • Model

• Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Up
  • Model

• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Think
  • Free

• I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Model
  • Role

• My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Model

• I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Universe

• Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Children
  • Want
  • Model

• I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Career
  • Model
  • New

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Model

• All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Know
  • Study
  • Model

• It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Kind

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Model
  • Youth
  • Role Model

• Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Growing

• While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • I Think
  • Housework
  • Physiotherapy

• You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Time
  • Great

• In Puerto Rico, there has developed a culture of taking out loans and not paying them back. That has ended.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia
  • Culture

• If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

  

  Andy Stanley
  • Church

• Not everybody is some kind of media model.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Model