{"quotes":[{"text":"Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advertising","appearance","clothing","fashion","homelessness","image","model","modeling","modelling","models","narcissism","narcissists","personal-brand","personal-branding","pity","poverty","presentation"],"id":15100,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","being-true-to-yourself","belief-in-yourself","believe-in-yourself","confidence","confidence-building","finding-yourself","goal-setting","goals","independence","inspirational","inspiring","life-affirmation","life-affirming","loyalty","michael-bassey-johnson","model","modelling","qualites","quality","on-self-esteem","role-model","role-models","self-belief","self-help","shape","trusting-yourself"],"id":73779,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["a-good-role-model","absence","adopt","adopted","adoption","conceive","copy","deliver","emulate","food-for-thought","give-birth","good-role-model","israelmore-ayivor","lead-by-eaxample","live-life-so-well","love-people","model","modelling","person","role","role-model","role-play","study","teach-others"],"id":86646,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abs","adage","adages","anabolic","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","bmi","body-fat","carbohydrates","carbs","cheat","cheat-day","cheat-days","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","diet-plan","diet-plans","diets","epigram","epigrams","exercise","exercises","exercising","fat","fat-loss","gain-weight","gnome","gnomes","gym","gymnasium","gymnasiums","gyms","humor","humour","in-shape","insightful","inspiration","junk","junk-food","lean","lean-muscles","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","metabolic","model","modeling","modelling","models","motivation","obese","obesity","out-of-shape","personal-trainer","personal-trainers","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","regular","regularly","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","shred","shredded","six-packs","stalemate","standstill","sugar","sugary","thought-provoking","thoughtful","train","trainer","trainers","training","waist","waist-line","weight","workout","workouts"],"id":98839,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["action","iq","modelling","models","obedience","philosophers","philosophy","thinking"],"id":99071,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment' - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns \u0026 Money.","author":"Satyajit Das","tags":["abstraction","finance","modeling","modelling"],"id":121765,"author_id":"Satyajit+Das"},{"text":"That’s one of the harsh realities I learned early on about the modeling industry: ultimately, your body doesn’t really belong to you. It belongs to the client. Since they’re paying, they figure they can do pretty much whatever they want to you. They can curl your hair, straighten it, dye it, cut it –even shave it. I’ve seen hair extensions being pulled out by the roots and smoke billowing out of flat irons while the hair inside gets singed and fried. I’ve watched models squeeze their feet into shoes so small their feet literally bled, and I’ve seen false eyelashes torn off so quickly that the natural lashes came off with them. Modeling may look glamorous on the outside, but believe me, beauty can be an ugly business.","author":"Kylie Bisutti","tags":["beauty","modelling"],"id":256108,"author_id":"Kylie+Bisutti"},{"text":"Modelling is a silly, crazy business.","author":"Helena Christensen","tags":["crazy","silly","modelling "],"id":284302,"author_id":"Helena+Christensen"},{"text":"You think I don’t know what I want? You think I love the idea of relying on my looks for life? No! It’s pathetic! In my head, I have a nice, quiet, normal job that involves me running my own business. I carry a briefcase around my office with important documents, I have a nice assistant who calls me boss, and people ask me questions—they ask for my advice because I matter! I’m important to them! I’m recognized as something more than a pretty face and a pair of legs. I have a brain and interests and thoughts about religion, and poverty, and economics. I’m not a miserable girl with a number attached to her chest, stripping her clothes off in a room full of people.","author":"Elisa Marie Hopkins","tags":["love","love","love-story","lovers","modelling"],"id":319103,"author_id":"Elisa+Marie+Hopkins"},{"text":"What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a feminist role model. My clothes don't define me and neither does my nakedness. I define me.","author":"Miya Yamanouchi","tags":["empowerment","feminism","feminist","modelling","mother","naked","nude","photography","professional","role-model"],"id":350726,"author_id":"Miya+Yamanouchi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}