Reputation Quotes - Page 30

• 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.

  Henry Walter Bates

  People, Giving, Southern

  Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

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• I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

  Gabrielle Anwar

  Thinking, Sides, Honest

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

  Jeff Buckley

  Fashion, Song, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

  Jim Broadbent

  Real, Responsibility, Way

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.

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• I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

  Russell Brand

  Writing, Thinking, Meaningless Things

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• I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

  Shelley Berkley

  Congress, Hardest, Persons

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• The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

  Simon Baker

  Thinking, Arrogance, Arrogant

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  John Sherman Cooper

  Differences, Directors, Like You

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• I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.

  Margaret Chan

  Talkers

  "Swine flu will be biggest pandemic ever, warns world health chief" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2009.

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• I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

  Robert Carlyle

  Actors, Knows, Strands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Song, Records, Belief

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• Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.

  Wesley Clark

  Military

  "60 minutes" with Dan Rather, www.cbsnews.com. November 19, 2003.

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• It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

  Frank Dobson

  Important, Raises, Labour

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• There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Ebb And Flow, Historical

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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.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Leader, Risk, World

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• I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Jobs, Book, Teaching

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• My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Book, Media, Email

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• Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Looks, Journalism

  "Guest Tells Bill O'Reilly: Don't Kid Yourself, Your Ambush Interviews Are NOT Journalism" by Steven Loeb, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

  Crispin Glover

  Roles, Eccentric, Facts

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• To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

  Eike Batista

  Powerful, America, Track

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• I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

  Rupert Friend

  People, Levels, Honest

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

  Joan Jett

  Past, Reality, Giving

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• Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

  Billy Joel

  Family, Mother, Giving

  Song: Only The Good Die Young, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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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.

  Michael N. Castle

  Past, Honor, Stories

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