quotes about Pedestal
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The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
-- Albert C. Barnes -
May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
-- Albert Camus -
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'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
-- Barry Sanders -
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
-- Bella Abzug -
I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
-- Billy JoelSource : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
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Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.
-- Christian Louboutin -
Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
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And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.
-- Doc Watson -
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
-- Frances Wright -
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Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
-- Frank Herbert -
There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.
-- Gerald Stanley LeeSource : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”
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If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
-- Guy Kawasaki -
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.
-- Honore Daumier -
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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.
-- Humphry Davy -
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
-- Ichiro Suzuki -
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
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When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
-- Louise Colet -
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
-- Margaret Atwood -
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'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
-- Naomi Campbell -
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I think celebrities are kind of put up on a pedestal and we don't really know much about them. I feel like my fans know every part of me because I've shown them.
-- Shane DawsonSource : Source: uwire.com
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The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
-- Teresa Mummert -
Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.
-- Timothy MortonSource : Timothy Morton (2007). “Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics”, p.5, Harvard University Press
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
-- Vivienne Westwood -
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
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 pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
-- Wilma Scott Heide -
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
-- Yves Saint Laurent -
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
-- Zaha Hadid -
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.
-- Camille HenrotSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
-- Dean DevlinSource : Interview wiith Dean Devlin, www.ign.com. July 16, 2002.
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Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
-- Huda Sha'arawi -
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.
-- Larry Siedentop -
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.
-- Linda D. Thompson -
I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.
-- Linda D. Thompson -
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Being a down-to-earth type of individual, I feel like I can connect with people on a different level, versus the GOD-like pedestal that people tend to put us on.
-- Michael Clayton -
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.
-- Samantha Bond -
Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance.
-- Rob HalfordSource : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
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Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.
-- Sharon Stone -
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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.
-- Simon RexSource : "From 'Dirt Nasty' To 'Rex': An Uncensored Interview With Celeb-Skewering Simon Rex". Interview with Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. July 13, 2009.
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Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.
-- Kevin DrewSource : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.
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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.
-- Mac BarnettSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.