Model Quotations | Page 4

I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything... She was an extraordinary role model for me.

Kevin and those guys are doing a great job right now. They are fast, so it's definitely a model team right now.

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.

Harris is like a breath of fresh air. He is a great personality, a great leader and role model for the younger players. He has terrific ball skills and great vision on the field and is a competitor.

I would urge any investor to do as much thorough analysis as they're capable of and that means looking broadly at the fundamentals of a company's business. Look at its business model and what its source of revenue is, how it's positioned in its market, where its growth comes from and where potential new growth could come from.

Kilpatrick is young, but he can be educated. We have to do everything we can to be supportive of him, even in bad times. If our parents had given up on us, where would we be? I think he's a role model for the kids.

Kevin really carried us through stretches of the season when we had people out. He is a team leader. He is a great model on and off the court.

I wouldn't be a good model for any designer's idea of what fashion is.

There are sites that are pretty well-known sites that are subscription based. That's a business model that people tend toward when their site gets success. But we're never going to do that.

There are so many other ways that they could go with their lives. If I can be a role model in any way, I welcome that.

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Given the business model for the consoles the more Microsoft can backload those hardware sales, the better it is for them financially.

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.

I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

I am very confident that our model will show in coming years how efficient it will be, taking advantage of our ability to continue to decrease costs and also to develop very sophisticated and original, high-end products for our customers and also taking advantage of our healthy growth projects.

I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wear things that skim my body more closely than a runway model would.

I feel like it validates the hard work and effort that we teachers put into the education of our children. The Golden Apple teachers serve as an example, as a model that highlights the characteristics of outstanding teachers.

I can tell you that reducing the work force by 11 percent, removing $4 billion of ongoing costs from the system and coming up with a new business model to me seems pretty competitive.

Fuel prices have sent people to cars a little bit more, and many of the trucks and SUVs from GM and Ford are at the end of their model life. Frankly, in terms of new models, there's more interesting stuff happening, and it's stronger with regard to the Asians.

Fred is a very astute guy and he's been around this business for a long time. I have no doubt that he's going to run this company in a very positive way for their shareholders. He's a model citizen like his father.

Free music for life gets into an economic model that's not going to work over time.

gifted national leader and a model public servant.

For so long we worked with the model that Earth is disposable. But God is an artist. Creation is his art. We ought to take care of it.

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

From our perspective, this has worked very well. People have concerns about contractors working side by side with government workers. If you are going to conduct business today, that is the model you will see.

From an economic standpoint, the league is much healthier, so as you grow your revenues you can proportionately grow your payrolls. The business model has been right-sized. We are not stressed now about the economics. Now we have to go about reselling the game.

From a business model standpoint, they're doing all the right things,

I feel rejuvenated, refreshed. I've been around some guys who can play this game. I'm a part of this tradition. Baseball's been part of my life since I was 4, 5 years old. I've always tried to model myself after a few guys and see what I'm capable of doing.

If you are a wireless service provider, your revenue model is increasingly based on interactive content. They are likely to generate some interesting content by looking to the large base of Java developers.

I don't think it's a drug safety board...The model is bad, the name is bad. Why can't there be an audience?

I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

Given the prolonged work stoppage and the league's TV ratings history, no financial model even remotely supports the contract terms offered.

For most companies, isolated business process reengineering is no longer enough. They now realize the importance of tying together data across disparate business processes--because this provides a holistic view of enterprise operations and enables the company to innovate at a business model level, whether it's linking price to demand and supply variables in real-time or understanding risk as it is being incurred to drive customized insurance policies.

I don't say this lightly: Louisiana has emerged as a model for juvenile justice systems in this country.

For us, Asia has been an opportunity to grow our business. We believe we've got a very good model inside Toll to offer customers an integrated supply chain capability. We don't think that has been serviced very well right across Asia.

If a company has a firewall or its Internet connection is separated from the network, it may assume it doesn't have to worry, In terms of threats to an enterprise's security, most losses occur inside the company. The model where we put a moat outside to keep the bad guys out is not very useful.

If a company puts in a solution in the market that makes other people fail, then we all fail as a community. This will be a model for enterprise services and how new ideas are proposed, developed and offered into in the market. It's an IP model to protect what you want to protect and one to protect everyone in the community, so you can't come after someone just because you gave them an idea for an enterprise service interface.

I have a basic model ? if you avoid your fears, they increase. If you face them, they diminish.

I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epitome of male sexuality. That was something I worked for.

I believe that international support through critical funds, together with the determination of my compatriots, Malawi can be a model country for meeting global health targets and get on with the business of African-driven global economic growth.

IBM had a good quarter. It showed the strength of our business model across hardware, software and services.

IBM is perhaps the most important earnings call because this company is the one that has made itself out as a new model of a major tech company,

IBM's business model is to operate in the high value segment of the information technology market. High value means high margins, and it means you can get a return on the research and development dollars you spend.

But although people may call it a Beijing consensus, we are not trying to pose as a model for other countries.

Bush may make serious attempts at reforming the tax code and social security; he's much less concerned with the risk of failure than previous presidents have been. The expected need to replace two or three Supreme Court justices, however, could so poison the water in Washington that very little will get done. (That is, unless he nominates Professor Tyson, who would be a model jurist).

Chris said Tony turned to him and said, 'What year were you born?' And he said '1923', so Tony said, 'You know what, I've got a 1923 model T Ford somewhere and I'll give it to you, if I can find it.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

Because of the uncertainties and the risks to our earnings model should any behavioral remedies be implemented, we continue to advise investors to stay on the sidelines until further clarity can be gained.

Basically my car's is pretty bad shape and I won't be able to run it at Airborne, ... But I'll be there with a car...Earlier this week, I got a call from Mike Sangermano, who owns a Late Model that runs at Waterford Speedbowl...We're going to combine the two teams for Sunday's Furniture World of Vermont Fall Foliage 150 and hope for the best.

I have a model rocket and I launched it three times yesterday and it smelled like a sewer.

I have already stated that we cannot start signing contracts worth millions of rands until we have been given adequate information on how much the stadium will cost and how it will be paid for. Thus far we have not been presented with a proper financial model to work with, and it would be irresponsible to proceed without one.

I have already told (EU foreign policy chief) Javier Solana, if this model (of evacuating settlements) will work, and things will be calm and quiet, it will undoubtedly become a positive model for any future moves,

We are extremely excited to have Jon return to Brown, ... He is a great leader and will be a fine teacher for our players. Jon was an outstanding player with an incredible work ethic. He is a great role model for our team.

Hawaii is a model -- the (Pacific) Tsunami Warning Center, excellent warning systems for hurricanes, good first-responder services. This whole level of providing assurance is important.

Here in Toronto, the Canadian model is showcased for the world to see. It is an achievement that has eluded many societies and one that we Canadians sometimes take for granted, and that is unfortunate.

What I like most about him is his leadership. He is a terrific role model for the younger guys.

When he started to think that people could believe his model could become true then the campaign was weakened. People hesitated. They started to think if they would have to pay more tax than before.

He's a good player. He's a good hitter, a good defender and a good baserunner. He also plays hard all the time. He certainly is a tremendous role model for all our young players, or anyone else who wants to watch.

He's a great model for the university in general. To have a player of this level and this accomplishment, who's also graduated in seven semesters, paints a pretty good profile of what we're looking for.

What we found is that the signal is so bold and big, that you don't have to do any fancy statistics to beat it out of the data. It's just there, bang. And the odds are exceedingly good that the model did not trick us with this signal.

Her (Newman's) inspired advocacy has helped leaders in North Carolina and throughout the country better understand how the arts improve the lives and communities of all Americans. Arts advocates nationwide look to Tog as a model for service, civility, engagement and leadership.

He's a class act - a bloke that I thought had the perfect action. Just the way he went about his business - he had aggression when he needed it and then he could go back and bowl his line and length. He's a fantastic role model for the kids.

We are focused on the game on the field. But our business model will not drive our success. The game on the field will.

We are genuinely confident with the model we have. We're just seeing if we can find new ways of getting the two newsrooms to work together.

We thought we had a business model that helped differentiate ourselves in the industry.

We think Dell has been too focused on perfecting its existing model instead of adapting it to a changing environment. What was working for them before is no longer working.

We take that basic model and license brands names, in this case Marvel, to create a branded ISP service fans can sign up for.

We're now looking ahead to what we're going to do in the next two years, next three years, but I think it's in the same model of trying to continue to move towards a reformed federal government.

We're offering a concrete business model with which we can go forward with vendor partners to allow readers access to the contents of our books in way that satisfies readers' interest in sampling and discovery.

I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home.

He was like a community father. He was more than a serious role model for us young cats.

He was never, ever anything but humble, good character, the perfect role model - all those kind of things, that was Calvin. In fact, he helped me attract several other outstanding athletes to Alabama because of the way Calvin was and what they saw in him.

Hun Sen appears to be following the Burmese model by imprisoning peaceful critics of his increasingly authoritarian government.

Humans are creatures of waste, so it is our duty to minimize our consumption and to ensure that we, as individuals are worthy of the waste that is created. A dull whining paranoiac who is a model of thrift but of little else is more symbolic of waste than an interesting and creative materialist.

Hypertrophy is a fairly good laboratory model for certain forms of heart failure, and the PKA signaling pathway is perturbed in certain cases of heart disease. That's why this study may have a high translational and clinical impact.

He was a great advocate of cycling, a great role model for cyclists. I met him at a public meeting in Leesburg. And he got up and spoke to the presenters. He spoke in support of additional trail projects. And I think he was instrumental in bringing other people to the meetings to speak their mind.

He was a great role model and a legend. He was Mr. Bowling. Whatever needed to be done to help promote the sport, he did it.

He kept getting better and better and became the model of what we want a Charger player to be.

He was one of my very favorite people. He was a great man. He was a great model for all of us.

He didn't think about the economic world the way most of us do. It made it difficult for him to communicate. His model was fundamentally different from everyone else's. That is what we'll miss.

I am gay and I'm very proud of who I am. I'm not asking for any sympathy or to be a role model to anyone else.

I am honored to be included with professor Mayor in this award. His innovative brilliance has been impressive and he has served as a model for young scientists.

If the advertising model does come down slightly in the future, I think there's available resources to get the money back in other ways.

If the business model didn't work, the URL won't travel.

If the business model doesn't work out, then it's bye-bye, Software.net.

He is definitely a prime example of how to be a pro, whether it's on the field, off the field, whatever. You can't have a better model for a young guy coming in on how to behave yourself and how to carry yourself. He's definitely done all the right things throughout his career.

He is exactly my role model for what a United States senator should be.

He is an extremely well-liked, well-respected, model inmate in the system by the authorities as well as by the inmates. Some of the inmates have come to sympathize with him because of his special restrictions.

He is a real role model for a lot of us. He is a great patriarch of the school.

He is as self-motivated as you will ever see. That's what makes him a great role model for the young guys. He leads by example and is a great teacher. He has taken a couple younger guys under his wing like Doug Worthington , Lawrence Wilson , Ryan Williams and Todd Denlinger .

He has to lead the national team. He has to be a model and an example.

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

He was a role model for New Zealanders for his ability to set clear goals and in his dedication in achieving them,

He has been a model of professionalism since he joined the club and brings a lot of experience with him.

He had a tremendous influence on everyone in the valley. He was a role model for everyone to live up to.

He would go to an area where the older guys hung out. They were not what you would call model citizens.

He was very sorry and apologized to me. He did not want anything like this to be a distraction. He really does realize that the players represent the community and he is one of the guys that would like to be a role model in this community. He realizes that this has been a negative thing in what should be a feel-good week for us.

I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.

His (Stringer's) business model is just a continuation of Idei's formula for growth, which means he doesn't have a new business model, ... It's a business model has been made obsolete by the digital era, and if the company is not able to change this model there is no way they will survive.