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Pedestals are always lonely. -- Myrtle Reed
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
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it. -- Richard C. Armitage
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. -- Agnes Repplier
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals. -- Dean Devlin
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. -- Zaha Hadid
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down. -- Samantha Bond
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. -- Betty Grable
I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals. -- Lee Daniels
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. -- Jonathan Shapiro
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. -- Michael Musto
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
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug. -- Neal Shusterman
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few. -- Honore Daumier
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition. -- Luc de Clapiers
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there. -- Betty Grable
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. -- William Ralph Inge
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. -- Antonio Machado

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