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Pedestal Quotes

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A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
Brian Setzer

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Gloria Steinem

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
Morgan Brittany

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!
Billy Ray Cyrus

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.
Althea Gibson

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
Jim Carrey

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
Edward Tufte

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
Naomi Campbell

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.
John Sexton

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Indra Devi

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Barbara Ehrenreich

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
William Lloyd Garrison

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
Tommy Rettig

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould

Today they're praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don't want to know you.
Mark McGrath

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Bella Abzug

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