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I normally don’t get up on a pedestal and sound the alarm, but this is something that I think we need to be looking at carefully. – Stanley Hazen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I love the social media movements that reject the outdated cultural tendencies of putting only certain bodies on a pedestal, self acceptance, self-love, and a positive body image are all really important for promoting our mental health and overall wellness. We should be able to be ourselves, and be ourselves with pride, no matter what that looks like for each of us. – Neha Chaudhary	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People love to tear you off your pedestal, just 'cause you’re really rich or you’re the best at tennis or you go to a charity event with 200 kids even though you’re dripping with COVID. – Pete Davidson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is a second time capsule and likely the one that was known to have been placed in the pedestal, the one recovered last week was unexpected and likely left by men involved in the construction. – Julie Langan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This land is in the middle of Richmond, and Richmonders will determine the future of this space, the Commonwealth will remove the pedestal, and we anticipate a safe removal and a successful conclusion to this project. – Ralph Northam	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Finding out at the age of 45 that the man I had idolized and put on a pedestal higher than Nelson’s Column since I was a small child was not in fact my father was a hard burden to bear. – Polly Fry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The propensity to put Washington on a pedestal does us no favors, it keeps us removed from the man George Washington, because it's a dishonest reading of New York Life. – Alexis Coe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Jefferson Davis was a racist traitor who fled our city as Jefferson Davis troops carried out orders to burn it to the ground, jefferson Davis never deserved to be up on that pedestal. July 1, we will begin the process the state requires to remove these monuments to the Old Richmond of a Lost Cause. – Levar Stoney	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The voices of the athletes were always there. It's just that when you're up on a pedestal, it's difficult to hear. – Erik Kynard	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He just did the right thing, he didnt expect anybody to put him up on a pedestal, [or] to put it on Facebook. – Shannon Slutman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Ultimately the only thing that [ brings ] successful entertainers together is just complete dedication and hard work and focus -- focus on their craft, so to put someone on a pedestal as being more than life -- larger than life -- is a mistake when you're hanging out with them because then people feel like they have a pressure to sort of be someone that they're not when they're with you. Most people just want to be able to relax and not have to talk about themselves. – Lukas Nelson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He made you feel like you were the only woman alive. And he took me everywhere. I ’ll never forget that night at the Elvis concert — or the hours spent with Jimmy afterward on a huge bed up on a pedestal. – Des Barres	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They put Facebook on such a high pedestal that the bottom is more painful. – Larry Ponemon	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women, women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us. – Asmi Fathelbab	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
These monuments have stood not as historic or educational markers of our legacy of slavery and segregation, but in celebration of it, to literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in some of our most prominent public places is not only an inaccurate reflection of our past, it is an affront to our present, and a bad prescription for our future. We should not be afraid to confront and reconcile our past. – New Orleans	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I've noticed how success is always put up on a pedestal. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I needed a warrior. But it couldn't be a man taking five wives from another man. That's an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that. to celebrate everything there is about being a woman, and not trying to put women on a pedestal, but being surrounded by other women in a story that was just real. – George Miller	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Our intention was not to put white people on a pedestal, it was merely to fight fire with fire. – Edgar Antillon	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years. – Hunter S. Thompson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance. – Stephen Jay Gould	added by anonymous 10 years ago
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. – Anna Quindlen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I normally don’t get up on a pedestal and sound the alarm, but this is something that I think we need to be looking at carefully.

– Stanley Hazen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I love the social media movements that reject the outdated cultural tendencies of putting only certain bodies on a pedestal, self acceptance, self-love, and a positive body image are all really important for promoting our mental health and overall wellness. We should be able to be ourselves, and be ourselves with pride, no matter what that looks like for each of us.

– Neha Chaudhary

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People love to tear you off your pedestal, just 'cause you’re really rich or you’re the best at tennis or you go to a charity event with 200 kids even though you’re dripping with COVID.

– Pete Davidson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is a second time capsule and likely the one that was known to have been placed in the pedestal, the one recovered last week was unexpected and likely left by men involved in the construction.

– Julie Langan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This land is in the middle of Richmond, and Richmonders will determine the future of this space, the Commonwealth will remove the pedestal, and we anticipate a safe removal and a successful conclusion to this project.

– Ralph Northam

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Finding out at the age of 45 that the man I had idolized and put on a pedestal higher than Nelson’s Column since I was a small child was not in fact my father was a hard burden to bear.

– Polly Fry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The propensity to put Washington on a pedestal does us no favors, it keeps us removed from the man George Washington, because it's a dishonest reading of New York Life.

– Alexis Coe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jefferson Davis was a racist traitor who fled our city as Jefferson Davis troops carried out orders to burn it to the ground, jefferson Davis never deserved to be up on that pedestal. July 1, we will begin the process the state requires to remove these monuments to the Old Richmond of a Lost Cause.

– Levar Stoney

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The voices of the athletes were always there. It's just that when you're up on a pedestal, it's difficult to hear.

– Erik Kynard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He just did the right thing, he didnt expect anybody to put him up on a pedestal, [or] to put it on Facebook.

– Shannon Slutman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Ultimately the only thing that [ brings ] successful entertainers together is just complete dedication and hard work and focus -- focus on their craft, so to put someone on a pedestal as being more than life -- larger than life -- is a mistake when you're hanging out with them because then people feel like they have a pressure to sort of be someone that they're not when they're with you. Most people just want to be able to relax and not have to talk about themselves.

– Lukas Nelson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He made you feel like you were the only woman alive. And he took me everywhere. I ’ll never forget that night at the Elvis concert — or the hours spent with Jimmy afterward on a huge bed up on a pedestal.

– Des Barres

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They put Facebook on such a high pedestal that the bottom is more painful.

– Larry Ponemon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women, women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.

– Asmi Fathelbab

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These monuments have stood not as historic or educational markers of our legacy of slavery and segregation, but in celebration of it, to literally put the Confederacy on a pedestal in some of our most prominent public places is not only an inaccurate reflection of our past, it is an affront to our present, and a bad prescription for our future. We should not be afraid to confront and reconcile our past.

– New Orleans

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I've noticed how success is always put up on a pedestal.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I needed a warrior. But it couldn't be a man taking five wives from another man. That's an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that. to celebrate everything there is about being a woman, and not trying to put women on a pedestal, but being surrounded by other women in a story that was just real.

– George Miller

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Our intention was not to put white people on a pedestal, it was merely to fight fire with fire.

– Edgar Antillon

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its national pastime pedestal in less than fifteen years.

– Hunter S. Thompson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

– Stephen Jay Gould

added by anonymous
10 years ago

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal

– Woody Allen

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

– Anna Quindlen

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

– Woody Allen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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