Model Quotes

New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
Lewis Mumford

Perfect, City, York

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
Margaret Cho

Religion, Less, Parent

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Edward de Bono

Science, Purpose, Useful

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
Eric Davis

Life, Getting, Inspired

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.
Giada De Laurentiis

Smart, Almost, Cook

Not everybody is some kind of media model.
Phil McGraw

Everybody, Media

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
Britney Spears

Mistakes, Else, Everybody

I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
Cameron Diaz

Girl, Pretty, Suck

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.
Haile Gebrselassie

Good, Help, Winning

I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Kim Weston

Work, Sense, Playing

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
Christy Turlington

Amazing, Used, Eat

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
Manuel Puig

Dreams, Dream, Simplify

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
Shirley Manson

Role, Comfort, Musical

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
Gregory Bateson

Poor, Logic, Cause

There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
George Saunders

Different, Might, Community

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
George Saunders

Time, God, Sometimes

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.
George Saunders

Work, Positive, Thought

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
Al Pacino

Life, Work, Help

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
Sean Paul

Life, Person, Opinion

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
Jeffrey Kluger

Simple, Same, Reason

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
Shaquille O'Neal

Real, Why, Means

It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.
Angie Stone

Great, Best, Mistakes

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
Padma Lakshmi

Successful, Career, Off

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Yves Saint Laurent

Good, Fashion, Ten

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
Bob Woodward

Government, Sad, Play

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Him, Understand, Find

Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children.
Cat Cora

Good, School, Children

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Halle Berry

Rock, Nothing, Career

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
Dave Eggers

Business, Design, Try

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
Dave Eggers

Business, Simple, Within

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