#pedestal

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled. ↗

— Misty May-Treanor

#i #known #little #more #nice

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

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

— Naomi Campbell

#i #i think #mighty #pedestal #set

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

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#come #handy #monuments #pedestals #save

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

— Mark McGrath

#know #pedestal #place #praising #sky

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#advocate #arrows #cows #hypocrisy #into

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

— Bella Abzug

#down #laundry #our #pedestal #room

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

— Guy Kawasaki

#pedestal #put #society #someone #teachers