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“I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.”

Reason Museums Furniture Pedestal

Author:Zaha Hadid

“I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.”

Want Kind Guy Pedestal Soap Operas Slippers Taking Advantage Noodles

Author:Billy Joel

“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”

Kids Ill Pedestal Mentally Ill

Author:Neal Shusterman

“When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.”

Love Ends Standing Holes Beloved Pedestal

Author:Mason Cooley

“Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.”

Children Justice Limits Boldness Lofty Pedestal Rashness

Author:Sophocles

“... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. They leave nothing to be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do not seem sometimes to have outgrown that old contemporary of chivalry--the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses,... but they must not furrow their brows with thought or attempt to help men tug at the great questions of the world.”

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Author:Anna Julia Cooper

“The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.”

Way Interesting Company Normal Presses Social Media Cycles Pedestal

Author:Biz Stone

“I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.”

People Long Self Lows Bars Say Anything Pedestal Self Deprecating

Author:Megan Fox

“Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.”

Fame Statues Pedestal

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.”

Eye Fame Ambition Fortune Pedestal

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.”

Men Way Hard Advice Stage Judging Platforms Pulpit Pedestal

Book:Juan de Mairena

Source: Juan de Mairena

“Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.”

Men Littles Lasts Names Sleep Fame Waste Glory Claims Strive Dust Toil Strife Splendid Marble Mockery Transient Pedestal

Author:Andrew Jackson Downing

“I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I don't want to be anything other than what we are. I want to just be a woman.”

Want Pedestal

Author:Charlize Theron

“I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.”

Thinking Way Writing Wells Problem Values Actors Nations Comedy Politician Percent Solve Ridiculous Virtuous Sober Bragging Tabloids Pedestal About Family Family Values Writing Comedy

Author:Steve Coogan

“Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.”

People Hard Jobs Moving Actors Results Months Couple Directors Responsible Hard Things Chunks Pedestal Darts

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.”

People Knows Want Kind Whole Normal Tendencies Relate Be Kind Living My Life Pedestal

Author:Assata Shakur

“People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.”

People Men Common Tendencies Preacher Common Man Pedestal

Author:Paul Washer

“I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.”

Way Wanted Used Higher Pedestal

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.”

People World Want Culture Interesting American Culture Spears Pedestal

Author:Simon Rex

“On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

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Author:William Henry Drummond

“It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.”

People Trying Sometimes Wanted Artist Asks Individual Inspiring Lifetime Exceptional Pedestal

Author:John Sexton

“When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.”

Two Greatness Method Chinese Crush Suspects Resorts Pedestal Troublemaker

Author:Lu Xun

“Liberalism, the dominant ideology of our time, has been dangerously distorted by the impact of economism. It is that impact which has knocked the citizen off his pedestal and replaced him with the consumer.”

Has Beens Citizens Impact Ideology Consumers Our Time Liberalism Replaced Dominant Pedestal

Author:Larry Siedentop

“I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.”

Felt Missing Design Designer Pedestal Missing Something Maestro

Author:Yohji Yamamoto

“I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them and we put them up on that pedestal.”

Thinking Want Kids Actors Athlete Senators Envious Pedestal

Author:Frank Deford

“Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't (...) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt (...) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop”

Who I Am Celebrate Dislike Drag Dirt Leaving Me Pedestal Irs Cuz Dislike Me

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.”

People Ifs Way One Way Pedestal

Author:Samantha Bond

“We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.”

People Pedestal

Author:Dean Devlin

“Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.”

“I know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, so I cannot really stand on a political pedestal and say, "I'm against Facebook!" But I haven't wanted to be on Facebook from the beginning.”

Knows Wanted Political Havens Instagram Pedestal

Author:Camille Henrot

“He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.”

Wells May Views Forever Point Of View Statues Lofty Pedestal

Author:Arthur Helps

“When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.”

People Steps Pedestal

Author:James Dobson

“One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.”

Ifs Knows Want Should Children Happens Turns Teach One Thing Capacity Should Have Scared My Children Parts Of Life Downfall Pedestal

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.”

Guy Fall Easy Lessons Pedestal Lesson Learned

Author:Kate Madison

“The removal of Bill Cosby from his cultural pedestal seems pretty complete.”

Seems Bills Pedestal Removal

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.”

Kind Whole Moments Hands Events Please Absurdity Lap Pedestal

Author:Mac Barnett

“Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.”

World Way Should Beautiful Spirit Growing Pure Buddhist Dirty Dirt Mud Sculpture Pedestal Lotuses Dirty World

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.”

Appreciate One Love Love Someone Pedestal Appreciate You

Author:Kevin Drew

“Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.”

Culture Rocks Rebellion Rock N Roll Pedestal

Author:Juliette Lewis

“If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!”

Ifs Art Bigs Middle Shining Cracks Museums Spotlight Pedestal Vases Japanese Art

Author:Arielle Ford

“I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.”

Men Trying Helping He Man Deserve Be A Man Pedestal

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.”

People Thinking Humans Allowing Pedestal Disservice

Author:Linda D. Thompson

“When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.”

Want Pain Fall Growing Up Growing Dad Superhero Pedestal Your Dad

Author:Jay-Z

“It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.”

People Way Humans Individual Lonely Way To Live Pedestal Disservice

Author:Linda D. Thompson

“Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance.”

Easy Balance Pedestal

Author:Rob Halford

“I get up in the morning and I put on makeup and then I say somebody else's words in someone else's clothes, and then I go home and watch TV, have a glass of whisky and go to bed. And I'm overcompensated for that. So it's insane to not use that pedestal to try and at least help someone or something that's in need.”

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Author:Ben Feldman

“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.”

Ifs Teacher Hero Pedestal

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“A lot of women were betting on me because there were so few role models and I let them down. They had put me on a pedestal. I maybe enjoyed being in that limelight, but I couldn't reverse what I had done.”

Done Roles Models Enjoyed Role Models Reverse Pedestal Betting Limelight

Author:Paula Broadwell

“It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.”

Steps Pedestal

Author:Max Lucado

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