Quotes of: Poster-child Keyword

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

Patrick Swayze

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Andy Grove

I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of t...

Gary Sheffield

I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Raha Moharrak

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

Julia Butterfly Hill

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Rodney King

I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

Candice Olson

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Mos Def

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Alice James

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

Creed Bratton

The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES...IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at the posters with a sort of absent horror. He looked at Alec and found that Alec could not tear his eyes away either. He wondered if Alec was aware th...

The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

Alanis Morissette

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

John Ridley

I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.

Joe Lando

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

The Lightning Thief

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

Carly Simon

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

Boris Becker

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

John Battelle

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

Martina Hingis

I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.

Daniela Bobadilla

I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

Candice Olson