#pedestal

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. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#bit #deserve #drag #happy #i

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

— Indra Devi

#descend #how #learn #men #more

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. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#beautiful #chapter #evidence #great #i

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

#just #life #live #make #normal

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

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

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

#i #just #know #me #needs

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

— Morgan Brittany

#built #famous #hollywood #hollywood people #knock

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

— Naomi Campbell

#i #i think #mighty #pedestal #set

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

#because #expect #good #high #his

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

#bring #built #completely #down #false