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

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

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future.

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

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

Equality begins in the mind. If in our own mind we have a pedestal for the billionaire and royalty, and no place for the janitor and the bartender, then even a thousand policy reforms won't be able to equalize such a cockeyed, internally broken society.

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.

Julguei que ia morrer. Queria morrer. E julguei que se fosse morrer ia morrer contigo. Rapazes como tu, jovens como eu?vi morrer tantos ao p? de mim durante o ano passado! N?o tive medo nenhum. N?o foi coragem o que ainda agora me fez ficar aqui. Pensei com os meus bot?es: "Temos esta cama, esta erva, dev?amos ter-nos deitado juntados, abra?ados, antes de morrer". Apeteceu-me tocar-te nesse osso do pesco?o, a clav?cula, que parece uma asa pequena e dura debaixo da pele. Apeteceu-me afag?-la com os dedos. Sempre gostei de corpos da cor dos rios e das pedras, da cor do olho castanho de uma susana, conheces essa flor? J? viste alguma? Estou t?o cansada Kip, s? me apetece dormir. Apetece-me dormir debaixo desta ?rvore, de cara encostada ? tua clav?cula, apetece-me fechar os olhos, sem pensar em mais ningu?m, encontrar um nicho de ?rvore, trepar l? para dentro e dormir. Que esp?rito meticuloso! Saber que fio h?s de cortar. Como ? que soubeste? Foste dizendo n?o sei, n?o sei, mas sabias. N?o foi? N?o tremas, tens de ser uma cama sossegada para mim, deixa-me aninhar-me, abra?ar-te como se fosses um avozinho, adiro a palavra "aninhar", t?o lenta, n?o se pode apress?-la.

My friends, don't idolize hardship. What you idolize is what your heart will look for and what your heart looks for is what you will have. And don't capitalize on misfortune, because you will always seek out to have capital! Throw away that pride! Don't put sorrow on a pedestal! If you ask me if I would rather have had my sorrows or not, I will tell you that no, I would rather have not had any of them! In the blink of an eye, I would rid myself of them! I have no pride. I don't rely on hardships and sorrows to mold me into someone. I don't allow myself to be dictated. When hardship and sorrow come knocking, saying "We are responsible for who you are today, let us in!" I'm going to say, in a split second, "No you're not! Go away, I don't owe you anything!

...When he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things.

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

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

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.

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.