Who's Your Role Model(s), & Why?

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Mine are these:

George Carlin - comedian - Very crude and says what's on his mind, his way of life should be that of most people, but each to their own, of course.

Kimya Dawson - musician - Just so nice, lives in a karma world where being nice and free will is the only rule, she believes everyone should do what they want.

Ian Bavitz (aka Aesop Rock) - musician - Proved to me that one doesn't have to leave their thoughts open all the time, even in his art orf self expression, one has to dedicate a lot of time to understand his world.

Mike Skinner (aka The Streets) - musician - Just so honest and peaceful, he lives doing what he wants and doesn't change just because his fans don't want him to, he's very versatile in his art and proves to give his all all the time.

My family and freinds, and even some enemies. They all affected me in one way or another to be who I am now.

Johnny Depp - actor - I love the fact that he's a down-to-earth, humble guy even though he's world-famous and very handsome. I'm totally obsessed with a handful of characters he plays (the Mad Hatter, Willy Wonka, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, Ichabod Crane, and possibly Barnabas Collins), because he makes them so convincing that they feel like "real people" rather than fictional characters to me.

Tim Burton - movie director/producer - I admire him because he has a "signature style" that is unmistakably his (in terms of aesthetics/motifs/themes in his movies), and he sticks with it even though he has haters. Without his influence on the aforementioned Johnny Depp characters I love, I don't think I would be nearly as obsessed with them. I love the fact that Depp's characters in each of Burton's movies is typecast as "the eccentric outsider", because it's a role that I identify with all too well.

Mick Avory of The Kinks. He was the gentleman of the group and he usually treated people with the kindness that he wished to be treated with. He also found God in 1966 after an incident at a night club. I also see a lot of myself in him, as well.

Malcolm X. Though I am a chritian he is a muslim that i looked up to as a child I have most of his books.

Augustine of Hippo. Lived the life of a sinner turned his life around and became a devot christian and later a saint his story is very inspiring.

Ed Wood. He is the Godfather of cult films.

Ric Flair. He is my favorite pro wrestler and the reason I am a pro wrestling fan.

Robert E Lee. was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War and a hero of the South.

Bela Lugosi. was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his career. His movies are some of my favorites loved watching him act.

George Washington. first President of the United States of America, serving from 1789 to 1797, and the dominant military and political leader of the United States from 1775 to 1799. If it was not for him America would have never become a nation.

Abraham Lincoln. My all time favorite US president in history his life befor he was a president is worth reading about.

No one

No one is better or worst than me, no one is worth more or less than me; we're all the same.

The closest to someone who's really a role model to me is my best friend. But I do like a bunch of celebs and fictional characters everyone here probably already knows about... The words 'role model' are serious to me though, because I've never had anyone in my life who's set me an example. My mum's always been too much of a brief-talker to talk to me about things, and she still is, and my father, though he's worked in the same job all his life from a young age, has always been found lying down on the sofa when I've 'seen' him at home... And he doesn't do things for himself, he'd always sent me around to fetch him something or turn off the light for him or whatever, and I'm the one who's supposed to be disabled in mobility.

Eva Markvoort - blogged about her battle with cystic fibrosis, she eventually died after her body rejected her lung transplant at the age of 25 but not before increasing awareness of the disorder and of the importance of organ donation, she was a strong and positive person.

Chris Bobel - an Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at University of Massachusetts-Boston who specialises in women-centered social movements, including menstrual activism (my special interest). One member of the Society For Menstrual Cycle Research who stands out.

Heather Corinna - an activist and sexual health advocate, founder of sex education site Scarleteen which brings sex-positive feminist accurate sex education to billions world-wide within a culture of abstinence-only education.

Don Cupitt - philosopher of religion and radical theologian, Cupitt is the founding father of the Sea Of Faith Movement which seeks to explore religion as a human creation, he challenged ideas of religions and opened-up a new approach to religion/philosophy for me.

I should really have more impressive role models, activists and the like, but I don't *shrugs*

Michael Collins (Irish leader) A hero of mine the man who started the Irish Rebublican Army sadly though during the Irish Civil War Collins was shot and killed in August 1922, Michael Collins was also President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and, therefore, under the bylaws of the Brotherhood, President of the Irish Republic.

Tom Barry. Because he was one of the most prominent guerrilla leaders in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish war of Independence.

Seamus Costello. Because he was a famous member of the Irish Republican Army

I can be your activist by time you come out the other end, with your mouth on the ground, after I finished impressing you with my models, you be wondering what the hell just happened. Then I will show you the rule of society as I blow your mind, with a confused look on your face, as you start wondering if your daydreaming or having an hallucination with yourself. Then I show you a politic & start making you tut as I make you feel like your sinking into the ground.

Once your wondering, confused, feel like your hallucinating, sinking into the ground. I will show you how much they don't care about the environment. :p

Sylvester Stallone is one of my role models. Not only did he have perfect physique in his youth, but he alse prooves that bain and brawn go together.

Bertrand Russell - An intellectual who was ahead of his time in many respects. He destroyed bad ideas wherever he found them, and he was a political force as well as an academic one.

Noam Chomsky - Similar reasons. A man who punctures the modern ideological landscape and shows how things are not as wonderful as we think they are, but can nevertheless be improved by ordinary people with moral courage. An optimistic cynic.

Etty Hillesum. She was a Dutch Jewish woman who perished in the Holocaust. Her writing showed me a totally new approach to faith, prayer and courage in action. She is more of an inspiration rather than a role model, as I could never hope to be as brave, perceptive and spiritual as she was.

Another shout for Chomsky, here. I also have great admiration for the bravery of Norman Finklestein.

Tyler Durden

This video will explain who and why:

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besides my comrades it would have ta be elizabeth gurley flynn- "the rebel girl". she was a socialist and agitator for the industrial workers of the world and was opperating in a time when going on strikes and being a militant labour leader would get you killed or imprisoned more readily than now. malalai joya maybe. was in the afgan parliament, spoke out against the imperialist forces, warlords in parliament and taliban and got kickedout and campaigns against the war despite constannt death threats.
other than her im not sure i have individuals who are role models- just events like the eureka stockade, the haymarket masacre, the patricks dispute of the 90s, stonewall riots, 1978 mardi gras riots, etc that really inspire me and i collectivelly admire the lot of them. or organisations like the iww or maritime union or builders labourers federation that i think are awesome.