Top 66 Pedestal Quotes

I prefer the word ‘musician.’ I’m a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word ‘artist.’ I don’t know if it’s the same in English, but words like ‘artist’ and ‘star’ put people on a pedestal, which is not really good for my brain.

I think… I’m perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I’m no different from anybody else.

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.

‘Laura’ was overtly political for sure. Caspary was trying to make a point about women and independence and how men viewed them, with derision or condescension or on a pedestal, when the real person was ignored.

People get some success, they get some money, they get some power, and they put themselves on this pedestal above other people. They forget people and try to fit in with their new crews they think they need to be around with. I didn’t believe that. I’m still human being.

Coming out of the Olympic Games, I was the golden boy and I got put up on a pedestal. I got stuff handed to me.

When people get placed upon a pedestal – when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal – they become mannequin-like.

Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early ’70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it’s fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

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

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

I want to be less of a role model and more of a mentor. I don’t ever want kids to put me on a pedestal and feel like they can’t talk or reach out to me. I want to be there for them.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you’re the pedestal they built for you.

I think things like ‘farm to table’ are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not… it’s almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.

We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up for what’s right. That brings on a whole new role. It’s not on the front of the agenda that you see, but if you read the fine print it’s part of becoming an athlete and the pedestal you get with that.

The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn’t like it.

It’s extremely difficult to say what one actually means by ‘sculpture’ other than, in a provisional sense, it’s something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I never wanted to be on a pedestal.

Sometimes I think I’m put on too high a pedestal and get thrown under the bus too much.

The media tends to put the artists with the hottest single on a pedestal. And as soon as that single goes away, you’re kicked off the pedestal.

I think that every boxer should understand he’s on the pedestal for a short span. It’s best that you use boxing and don’t let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you’ll never starve.

Today they’re praising you sky high, place you on a pedestal and tomorrow they don’t want to know you.

When you are a successful footballer, you get put on a pedestal. You are the person your friends and family look up to, and they do not know how to approach you when things are going wrong, even when you just need someone to reach out to you and ask you if you are all right.

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.

We come from that school where we don’t believe we’re different from you, and it’s insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.

I place ‘Star Wars’ on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these stories.

There are a lot of people who are very willing to put my mother on a pedestal, which is a lonely existence. She wants to dispute that so much that she will literally do anything for anybody.

I had never fought a guy before that I had put on a pedestal the way I did with Carlos Condit. I’ve got his walkout shirt. He’s a former champion. I’m a huge fan. I doubted myself a lot of times.

I am in awe of the brand, and there is nothing I would do or contemplate doing that would any way impact the unique pedestal that Steinway occupies in the industry, 160 years, uncompromising reputation for excellence, and it’s my goal to safeguard that reputation and continue that pursuit of perfection.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

It’s always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you’re a good role model. It’s such a double-edged sword, because you realize you’ve been put on this pedestal, and you have to make sure that you don’t do anything to get torn down.

If you snap off people’s heads and get on to a kind of a pedestal, it’s more difficult for people to approach you. It’s much easier if you are down there with them. They will talk to you.

I’ve put myself on this pedestal from the start.

People always go on about me being an inspiration, which is nice. But it’s an unrealistic pedestal to be put on. There are other people out there who have had things happen to them, not just me.

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.

Kyrie Irving, before he even played one game of college basketball, had 7,000 fans on Twitter. Seven thousand. So these kids these days are put on this pedestal up here. I really think it discourages the value of hard work and of patience.

Some people who come from high levels in other backgrounds where they’re used to being the best or used to being on a kind of pedestal, it’s hard to kind of lower yourself again and just be one of the grunts. I kind of enjoyed that challenge in MMA.

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.

People want to dethrone you from the pedestal that you’re on when you have a platform, when you have a voice.

I’m not better than anyone else. I’m not supposed to be on a pedestal. I’ve always stayed away from that.

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.

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.

I’m not set on a pedestal where I think I’m too high and mighty.

In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there’s a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.

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.

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.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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.

Everybody has those certain fighters they follow and that they really put on a high pedestal. They want to give the most shine that they possibly can. They look for any reason to break down a fighter’s performance to when it isn’t their favorite fighter in any positive thought.

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.

If you are successful, then it is only human that you are sometimes a bit saturated. You might also lose that hunger which means that others who are more ambitious will knock you off your pedestal.