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My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.
One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.
Am I afraid of President Maurizio Zamparini's reputation for hiring and firing? No, the only thing I fear is death!
I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
The Senate has a reputation as quite a collegial place, and I have found that to be true, especially with the women.
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
One of my favourite plants is English lavender but it doesn't have the best reputation for growing in the Highlands.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Once you get a reputation for emotional volatility, it can take years of model behavior to change how others see you.
I've never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I've got a reputation as a troublemaker.
I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.
I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.
The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.
We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Your reputation doesn't stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you're capable of doing the job.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.
By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.
I think there are more Australians making it in Hollywood... we have a fantastic reputation for having a great work ethic.
Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.
It's a very lovely reputation to have - being a kind person. I try to live up to the fact that people think that about me.
Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.