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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.
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.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
After having grown the brand and elevating the overall reputation of TFC both at home and abroad, it seems I no longer serve a purpose.
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
In-N-Out Burger has a well-known and long standing reputation as a corporation that is operated with a Christian message and philosophy.
As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue.
Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline - it's been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.
Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
I didn't know anything about England or anything about Arsenal, but I knew a lot about Arsene and his reputation, so I went straight away.
I am no longer willing to take parts in films and/or television shows which detract from the 50 years I have spent building my reputation.
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.
It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.
When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.
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.
I like Scott Coker a lot. He built Strikeforce, turned it into what it was and he has a great reputation with fighters and other promoters.
Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
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.
Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.
There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.
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.
You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.
I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional.
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.
Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.
I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
Defendants would groan whenever they saw me enter a courtroom because I had a reputation for coming armed with the facts and for winning cases.
To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic.
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.
As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.
For a long time, New Orleans was the classic-rock station of American cuisine, its reputation for flamboyance belying its playlist conservatism.
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.
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.
I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.
Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.
The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.