Reputation Quotes - Page 27

• He has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor, because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be.

  George W. Bush

  New York, Humor, Mean

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• There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Two, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.348, 谷月社

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• Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

  Jeff Cooper

  Black And White, Colonialism, Modern

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• To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.

  Libbie Block

  Perfection, People, Comedian

  Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”

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• Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Weakness, Use, Injury

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.127, Applewood Books

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• Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

  Heraclitus

  Knowing, Opinion, Claims

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• You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.

  Michael Gove

  Teacher, Believe, Thinking

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• Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

  Hermann Hesse

  Player, Glasses, Games

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

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• I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Superhero, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• You could say that the Hell's Angels have a bad reputation, then you talk to a biker, and he's trying to join it. It just depends upon who you're talking to about reputation.

  Anton Newcombe

  Angel, Talking, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My reputation is aggressive this and aggressive that.

  Juan Pablo Montoya

  Aggressive

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• I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

  Ariel Pink

  Evolve, Shows, Ifs

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• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  Nate Silver

  People, Whole, One Thing

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• One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Kind, Reacting, Traps

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• That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

  Joe Torre

  Thinking, Honest, Being Honest

  "Torre on book: 'It wasn't my intention to shock anybody'". Interview with Larry King, edition.cnn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Reputation shows who people think you are. Character shows who you really are.

  Craig Groeschel

  Character, Thinking, People

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• From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, What If

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Fifa, Mud

  "Fifa President: 'It Has to Stop Here and Now'". www.usatoday.com. May 28, 2015.

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• Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

  Epictetus

  Desire, Body, Aversion

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Suicide, Teacher

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• Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

  Isocrates

  Ignorant, Looks, Accusation

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Honesty, Would Be, Moral

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• She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Character, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6088, Delphi Classics

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• Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Glowing, Might

  Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.7, Knopf

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• The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

  Theodore Zeldin

  People, Way, Vulnerable

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