Poster Child Quotes

#1. Nina Simone had such an androgynous voice; the first time I listened to her I thought it was a man, and I'm sure a lot of people listening to me think I'm a woman. Her voice is kinda like the poster child for me.

Shamir

#2. When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.

Atticus Shaffer

#3. I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

Zoe Bell

#4. Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

John Battelle

#5. I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Raha Moharrak

#6. I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

Brian Skerry

#7. To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward thinking world. To her, their faces bore the costume of the ignorant, and they were poster children for gross close-mindedness in an open-minded, ever changing world

Umm Zakiyyah

#8. I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

Patrick Swayze

#9. That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world.

Tim Cook

#10. I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

Julia Butterfly Hill

#11. I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

Bernard Hopkins

#12. Ozzy, God bless him, is super talented. He is a great man. He is a man of heart and soul and goodwill. He is a very funny man but he is a perfect poster child of why I have never touched drugs, alcohol, tobacco or fast food.

Ted Nugent

#13. I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Rodney King

#14. I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

Katy Perry

#15. You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.

Carly Simon

#16. As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

Christopher Moore

#17. Because I'm attracted to you. Because you're the poster child for contradictions and I enjoy each one of them. You're funny when you're being so damn serious. You have a kind heart and protective nature that reminds me so much of my father.

N.D. Jones

#18. What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

Rick Riordan

#19. When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

Al Sharpton

#20. O'Keefe is the poster child for doing exactly what you want, in the service of an abiding passion.

Karen Karbo

#21. I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.

Mos Def

#22. Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability.

Seth Shostak

#23. My personality has not once altered under outside influence." "Then I'm genuinely appalled, and your childhood nannies have my intense sympathy. You've got a bit of a nerve, don't you think, accusing other people of vanity? You make Mr. Darcy look like the poster child for low self-esteem.

Lucy Parker

#24. In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

Creed Bratton

#25. You know, Uri, there's something seriously wrong with me. (Acheron)
And you're just now figuring this out? Damn, you're the poster child for slow learning. (Urian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#27. Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!

Kim Fields

#28. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

Candice Olson

#29. It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

Alanis Morissette

#30. I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

John Ridley

#31. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.

Tucker Elliot

#32. I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.

Gary Sheffield

#33. I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Andy Grove

#34. The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.

Immortal Technique

#35. Even Christian - the poster child for "smartass" - looked grim.

Richelle Mead

#36. The modern chicken is both a technological triumph and a poster child for all that is sad and nightmarish about our industrial agriculture. The most engineered creature in history is also the world's most commonly mistreated animal.

Andrew Lawler

#37. Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

Bob Beauprez

#38. I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.

Jennifer Aniston

#39. Through getting sponsored and becoming a part of the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta, doors were being opened. The entire culture was shifting from ramps to street, and I sort of became a poster child for that.

Mike Vallely

#40. Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

Wanda Sykes

#41. I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife ... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

Candice Olson

#42. I was a poster child ... for birth control!

Rodney Dangerfield

#43. The University of California has been selected as the poster child of animal abuse at laboratories. It's been shown that the tactics are more effective if you just hit one person over and over and get them to quit what they're doing.

Jerry Vlasak

#44. How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Mike Huckabee

#45. The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

Jared Spool

#46. Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original."
Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

Jim Butcher

#47. Seen on a poster: I once asked a child what the meaning of life was. "Feed the kitties," she said, "feed the kitties.

Bren McClain