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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.

Al Pacino
pedestal used way

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
pedestal museums art
May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedesta... by Albert Camus

May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!

Albert Camus
pedestal friendship heaven

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
pedestal successful want

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Arthur Helps
pedestal views forever

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
pedestal supposed-to-be
I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal. by Billy Joel

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

Billy Joel
pedestal slippers guy

The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

Biz Stone
pedestal way interesting

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 Henrot
pedestal instagram political

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.

Charlize Theron
pedestal want
To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permiss... by Chris Colfer

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

Chris Colfer
pedestal giving world
Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the... by Christian Louboutin

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

Christian Louboutin
pedestal life-changing shoes

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

Cynthia Heimel
pedestal female term
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! by Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri
divine-comedy inferno pedestal
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to... by Dean Devlin

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

Dean Devlin
pedestal people

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
pedestal want people

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
shells pedestal dream

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
pedestal easy people

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Frances Wright
pedestal paid virtue

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
pedestal lying fall
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