Quotes of: Role-models Keyword

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if s...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

The concept of ta'dib, if properly understood and competently explicated, is the correct concept of education in Islam, and not ta'lim or tarbiyah, which are currently in vogue among Muslims all over the world. this is because ta'dib already includes...

Islamization of Contemporary Knowledge and the Role of the University in the Context of De-Westernization and Decolonization

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive diss...

Michael Shermer

Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person' came, via french, from the Latin word 'persona', which referred to the mask worn by tan actor to protray a particular ch...

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Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

Glenn Close

If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I've tried to take roles with great demands.

Annette Bening

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I play a huge variety of roles.

Casper Van Dien

I've been getting diverse roles.

John Boyega

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

Joe Pantoliano

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

The God of the Machine

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

David Crane

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Brene Brown

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

I personally find ''super models'' strange. I don't know why this is.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Designing an airplane and modeling it after an ostrich is a stretch, but I’ve always been flexible.

This Book Has No Title

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

Cody Horn

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

Lily Cole

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.

Nils-Axel Morner