I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not!
I don’t think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don’t think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we’re envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.
Michael Dyson is popular amongst most blacks because he uses his pedestal as an ‘educated’ man to justify blacks’ rage and hatred and never demands that blacks take responsibility for themselves and their own failures and character flaws.
As soon as you’re put on a pedestal, you’re easily knocked off it.
I don’t put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He’s just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.
When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don’t imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on a pedestal, blindfolded, holding the scales of justice in one hand! No, I see sentences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don’t put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.
In the gay world, and in drag in particular, they love to put you on a pedestal and then two minutes later rip you down.
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