Pedestal Quotes
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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...
Swami Vivekananda
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Upon Mary`s death, close friend and fellow CAC (Celebrity Action Council) member Meredith MacRae said, "Mary was not a star on a pedestal. She really listened to these troubled women and would candidly share her own struggles. She recruited dentists for t...
Mary Frann
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For me, a large part of Jungle Fever (1991) is about sexual mythology: the mythology of a white woman being on a pedestal, the universal standard of beauty, and the mythology about the black man as sexual stud with a ten-foot dick. Buying into the mytholo...
Spike Lee
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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
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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.
Sharon Stone
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After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly Parton
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I`m so proud of my heritage, but yes, I think there`s always a danger when people put you on a pedestal. Especially when you`re just trying to live your life and pursue your dreams. The intention is not to represent Asian Americans, but to be an Asian Ame...
Lucy Liu
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Today they`re praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don`t want to know you.
Mark McGrath
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
Al Hubbard
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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 individ...
Allan Brophy
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It has been refreshing that the last four roles that I`ve done have not been so blatantly sexual with me being put on some imaginary pedestal.
Taye Diggs
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I`m not set on a pedestal where I think I`m too high and mighty.
Naomi Campbell
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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.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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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.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Celebrities are always put on a pedestal,
Deborah Hutton
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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
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
Stephen Jay Gould
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A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
Anna Quindlen
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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen
Subject: Marriage QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
