""Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations."
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"I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age."
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"Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation."
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"I couldn't live my reputation down - all right then, I'd live up to it."
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"Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so."
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"No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes."
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"The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over again. You don't just get it by virtue of being a professor or a politician or anybody else."
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"I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything."
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"In short, the difference between you and your doctor is that he has a well-designed reputation and you do not."
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"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."
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"Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself."
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"Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation."
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"We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation."
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"When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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"Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor."
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"You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser."
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"Only think of my being alive with a reputation!"
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"Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought."
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"Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man."
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"Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film."
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