Model Quotes

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

I swear I want to be a food model.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.