Pedestal Quotes
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When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.
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I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.
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Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.
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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.
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We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
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I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.
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Obviously, everyone loves someone who appreciates you and puts you on a pedestal.
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Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.
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I don't think as highly of myself as some people make me out to be. I am so far from arrogant, because I have been through enough to know that everything can go away in a moment. You know, I really don't understand why anyone would want to put me on a pedestal.
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Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.
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When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
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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.
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Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it's fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?
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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.
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The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.
