A Quote by Dean Devlin

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

Dean Devlin

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Knock Off Otherwise People Put

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Dean Devlin
American - Director
Born: August 27, 1962

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

Lee Daniels

Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.

Hugh Hefner

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

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

Samantha Bond

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Samantha Bond

We have this real problem as human beings to put people on pedestals - with celebrities, with historical figures - and we forget they're humans just like us.

Tessa Thompson

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

Agnes Repplier

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.

Stella Benson

Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Neal Shusterman

Pedestals are always lonely.

Myrtle Reed

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.

Margaret Atwood

I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.

Richard C. Armitage

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.