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  • People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.

    "Janet Jackson on body image, self-acceptance" by Alison Prato, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2010.
  • 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.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.

    "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (pp. 116-117), 1962.
  • Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

    Stars   Night   Men  
  • 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.

  • When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

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

  • The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

  • Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

    "Vivienne Westwood coup for north east museum" by Helen Carter, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.
  • 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.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

  • 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?

    Dream   Pedestal   Shells  
    "Godel, Escher, Bach". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, observer.com. 1979.
  • Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

    Swami Vivekananda (1962). “What Religion is: In the Words of Swami Vivekananda”
  • In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Child of God”, p.138, Vintage
  • Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

    Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.32
  • Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

  • He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.

    Crush   Knowing   People  
    Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Jobs   Couple   Moving  
    "Billy Bob Thornton Talks JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR, Getting Back in the Director’s Chair, BAD SANTA 2, FX’s FARGO Miniseries, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2013.
  • 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   Judging   Advice  
    Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press
  • Please," he whispered. His voice was low but clear. "Don't hurt me anymore." Attolia recoiled. Once, as a child, she'd thrown her slipper in a rage and had knocked an amphora of oil from its pedestal. The amphora had been a favorite of hers. It had smashed, and the scent of the hair oil inside had lingered for days. She remembered the scent still, though she didn't know what in the stinking cell had brought it to mind.

    Hurt   Children   Hair  
    Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Queen of Attolia”, p.16, Harper Collins
  • A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

    Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
  • While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.

  • History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

    Fall   Character   Dust  
    Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin
  • 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.

    Doe   Pedestal   Afar  
    Timothy Morton (2007). “Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics”, p.5, Harvard University Press
  • The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

    Men   Liberty   Pedestal  
    Letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810.
  • We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

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

    Pedestal   Steps  
    Source: www.biblegateway.com
  • Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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

    Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 15, 2013.
  • I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress.

    Funny   Believe   Humor  
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