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In an era where eloquence masquerades as honesty, the magnetic pull of inarticulate truths splits incubation from revelation,--so art will embrace silence about the loud proclamations kreipped in convention.
Author:
Marisol Dante
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You know you're successful when your absence causes doubt in your competitor's claims
Author:
Tom Kerridge
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Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Character is like a tree and reputation like shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Success is not about who you know, but who knows you for the right reasons.
Author:
Olivia Chang
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Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
Author:
John Zimmerman
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Author:
John Wooden
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Author:
Eli Whitney
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Author:
George Washington
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Author:
Voltaire
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At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
Author:
Wietse Venema
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The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
Author:
Linus Torvalds
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Author:
Paul Theroux
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Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
Author:
Charles Talleyrand
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A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.
Author:
Albert Speer
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Author:
Warren Spahn
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Author:
Socrates
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In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game.
Author:
Tommy Smith
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You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Author:
Liz Smith
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Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Author:
Liz Smith
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Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
Author:
Joshua Slocum
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It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
Author:
Peter Singer
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Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
Author:
Mike Simpson
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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My reputation grows with every failure.
Author:
George Shaw
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Author:
George Shaw
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.
Author:
Jay Sekulow
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Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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I am better than my reputation.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
Author:
Fred Savage
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Author:
Sallust
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Author:
Saint Sales
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HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
Author:
Richard Russo
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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Author:
John Ruskin
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I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.
Author:
Geraldo Rivera
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The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
Author:
Ellen Richards
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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Author:
Jules Renard
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Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Author:
Myrtle Reed
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
Author:
J. Priestley
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I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation.
Author:
Katie Price
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At ev'ry word a reputation dies.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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I did not have a reputation to defend.
Author:
Roman Polanski
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Author:
Petrarch
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Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Author:
Laurence Peter
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It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
Author:
James Payn
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New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
Author:
Jane Pauley
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Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
Author:
Paul Nurse
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The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
Author:
Kim Novak
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That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!
Author:
Harry Nilsson
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It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
Author:
John Nicolay
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SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
Author:
Graeme Murphy
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Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
Author:
Rupert Murdoch
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If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.
Author:
Gouverneur Morris
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Author:
Samuel Morison
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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Author:
Margaret Mitchell
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Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Author:
Margaret Mitchell
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Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
Author:
John Mitchell
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Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist.
Author:
Ethel Merman
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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Author:
Mencius
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
Author:
Henry Mayhew
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Author:
W. Maugham
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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Author:
James Lowell
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I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.
Author:
Nia Long
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.
Author:
John Larson
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I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
Author:
Ted Kotcheff
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Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
Author:
Brian Koslow
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One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.
Author:
Brian Koslow
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There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
Author:
Brian Koslow
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If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
Author:
Rem Koolhaas
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I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
Author:
Calvin Klein
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Author:
Victor Kiam
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All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.
Author:
Ramman Kenoun
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Author:
John Kennedy
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
Author:
Ingvar Kamprad
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
Author:
Flavius Josephus
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
Author:
Richard Jewell
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No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Author:
Calamity Jane
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
Author:
C. James
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Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service.
Author:
King Hussein I
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I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.
Author:
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.
Author:
Brit Hume
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
Author:
Sam Houston
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I never had that reputation of being not accessible.
Author:
Lauren Holly
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It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
Author:
Anthony Holden
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If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.
Author:
Tom Hicks
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Author:
Joseph Hall
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It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
Author:
Matthew Hale
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Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
Author:
Henry Grunwald
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I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.
Author:
Hugh Grant
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'
Author:
Mikhail Gorbachev
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You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.
Author:
Terry Gilliam
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If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.
Author:
Christopher Gadsden
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Author:
Henry Ford
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Author:
Euripides
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Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Author:
Epicurus
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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Author:
Epictetus
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I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
Author:
Robert Emmet
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As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
Author:
Jo Emerson
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I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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I believe that sooner or later we're going to have to deal with Saddam Hussein, because of his general reputation, because of what I'm convinced he's done with regard to terrorism and the support thereof. But I'm not at all sure I believe that it has to be right now.
Author:
Lawrence Eagleburger
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These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.
Author:
Dick Durbin
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
Author:
Vincent D'Onofrio
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It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.
Author:
Caroline Dhavernas
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The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
Author:
Anthony D'Angelo
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
Author:
George Curtis
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If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Author:
Mario Cuomo
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You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
Author:
Elvis Costello
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I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.
Author:
John Cooper
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Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Author:
Charles Colton
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With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.
Author:
Glenn Close
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In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
Author:
Lord Chandos
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And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation.
Author:
Michael Castle
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And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.
Author:
Michael Castle
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.
Author:
Sophia Bush
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
Author:
Kate Bush
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Author:
Warren Buffett
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
Author:
Warren Buffett
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
Author:
Harold Brodkey
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Author:
Nathaniel Branden
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A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
Author:
Ernest Bramah
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I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.
Author:
David Blunkett
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It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Author:
Josh Billings
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
Author:
Jeff Bezos
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Author:
Robert Benchley
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Author:
Charles Beard
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
Author:
Henry Bates
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A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation.
Author:
James Atlas
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
Author:
Elizabeth Arden
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I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
Author:
Jane Alexander
