When people see you do something bad it's hard for them to see you any other way.
— Chad Handley, C. Cooley Walters, Danny McBride, Jesse Gemstone, Danny McBride, imdb.com
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Quotes tagged ‘Reputation’
It's salacious and bizarre and it'll follow you forever.
— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, James Sullivan, Theo Germaine, imdb.com
Dylan was a known dick drawer.
— Tony Yacenda, Dan Perrault, Peter Maldonado, Tyler Alvarez, imdb.com
You weren't just fucking the Home Secretary. You're fucking our whole reputation.
Did Google happen to say what became of me? Because I’d love to know.
— David E Kelley, Jonathan Shapiro, Billy McBride, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com
Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.
I know that the gentlemen in the enemy camp may think of me however they like. I consider it beneath me to try to change the minds of these gentlemen.
Consumerism too is a virtual reality game. You gain points by acquiring new cars, buying expensive brands and taking vacations abroad, and if you have more points than everybody else, you tell yourself you won the game.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
We get up in the morning and put on our clothes – and clothe ourselves in our illusions.
To be a slave to an idea of coolness is why some of your friends never grow and in the end are actually less themselves, and counter-intuitively live less authentic lives than the buyers-in.
Somehow, we’ve built a culture that places such immense value in appearances that we’d rather spend a lot to appear full than spend a little bit to buy food.
Strong is just a quiet hunger and a stifled sob.
We dress for the jobs we want, forgetting that most salaries are tailored to afford dressing for the jobs we have.
Women have to do an impossible dance of being both ‘feminine’ enough not to be threatening, but ‘masculine’ enough to be taken seriously.
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
Perhaps the most exhausting part of the charade was time spent watching myself through the lens of others; contorting myself into something more palatable for the next person; shouldering guilt and expectations that weren’t mine to bear.
Sacrificing who we are for the sake of what others think just isn’t worth it.
I’m not interested in your past, I’m interested about what makes you tick, what makes you angry, what keeps you sane - tell me those things. You have my undivided attention. People waste so much time on reputation that they simply forget that you aren’t the same person who did those things back then…
No man is great while he is alive because the last day before his death he might do something that would discount all else of greatness in his career.