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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.
When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.
I place 'Star Wars' on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these stories.
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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.
The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.
Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels
The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.
In the gay world, and in drag in particular, they love to put you on a pedestal and then two minutes later rip you down.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
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.
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
The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
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.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.
People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional sport.
Why should the PM be placed on such a high pedestal? That an ordinary citizen should not even have the guts to write a letter to the PM?
I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.
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.
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.
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.
I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.
A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations.
We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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.
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.
I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.
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.
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.
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.
Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.
In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.
We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.
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.
People might get mad at my style or my delivery and say it's not country. But the country music that brought me to Nashville? Man, I will always have that on a pedestal.
I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.
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.
We like to put people on a pedestal, give them one character trait, and if they step outside of that shrinelike area that we blocked out for them, then we will punish them.