Model Quotes
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Money is available from investors as long as you have a great business model and a talented leader.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
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I take being a role model very seriously.
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The United States is a huge market, and once you get rolling, you can replicate that model over and over pretty easily. Your supply lines are taken care of. You don't have technicians to deal with. You've got your customer base.
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.
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When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.
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We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
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I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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I hope that my work ethic has been a model for those who do not believe in themselves or have lingering doubts about their own abilities.
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I've been in a lot of tough businesses: First Lady of San Fransciso, working as model, actress, TV host. You better have thick skin, for sure, but you also need to laugh at yourself. I make fun of myself all the time.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
