A Quote by Too Short

The media tends to put the artists with the hottest single on a pedestal. And as soon as that single goes away, you're kicked off the pedestal.

Too Short

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Too Short

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

James Haskell

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

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

J. C. Ryle

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

Wilma Scott Heide

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

Ichiro Suzuki

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

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

Paul Weller

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

Rob Halford

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off. It's balance.

Rob Halford

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Arthur Helps

America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.

Neil Sedaka

Lesson learned: Don't ever put a guy up on a pedestal. It's too easy for him to tip over and fall off.

Kate Madison

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

Marketa Irglova

There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.