Put On A Pedestal Quotes

#1. The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.

James C. Collins

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.

Alan Arkin

#5. I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.

Aaron Paul

#6. I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

Tupac Shakur

#7. You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Avril Lavigne

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Misty May-Treanor

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

Cynthia Heimel

#11. 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.

Katherine Jenkins

#12. I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.

Assata Shakur

#13. When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

Jay-Z

#14. The French and their food. They put each meal on a pedestal.

Giada De Laurentiis

#15. 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.

Shane Dawson

#16. I like to literally put women on a pedestal

Vivienne Westwood

#17. 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.

Steven Spielberg

#18. The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Marketa Irglova

#19. 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.

Kit Harington

#20. I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

Sandra Bullock

#21. Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

Sharon Stone

#22. When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.

James Dobson

#23. 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

#24. 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.

Madonna Ciccone

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

Teresa Mummert

#26. The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian.

Antony Beevor

#27. It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

John Sexton

#28. If you put me on a pedestal, I will fall off because I can never achieve the perfection of your expectations.

D.S. Mixell

#29. There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

William J. Brennan

#30. His message was to follow the Course, don't put it on a pedestal, and don't deify it or make it a holy text.

Carol Howe

#31. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#32. The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

Orhan Pamuk

#33. We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

Mac Barnett

#34. Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't ( ... ) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt ( ... ) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop

Madonna Ciccone

#35. It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!

David Beckham

#36. If you had a large vase with a big crack down the middle of it, a Japanese art museum would put the vase on a pedestal and shine a spotlight on the crack!

Arielle Ford

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

Kate Madison

#38. 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

#39. 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.

Eric Davis

#40. Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

Jesse Ventura

#41. In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

Hank Aaron

#42. Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

Huda Sha'arawi

#43. The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

Tommy Rettig

#44. 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

#45. I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme? ...

John Geddes

#46. A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

Brian Setzer

#47. If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

Ben Carson

#48. 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.

Dolly Parton

#49. If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

David Ulevitch

#50. 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.

Julianne Hough

#51. 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.

Paul Washer

#52. 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.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

Vivienne Westwood

#54. 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.

Megan Fox

#55. If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Guy Kawasaki