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if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right. Henry Rollins
Robert Quillen quote: "Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what..."
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for. Robert Quillen
Voltaire quote: "Fools admire everything in an author of reputation."
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. Voltaire
Terry Prachett quote: "If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you..."
If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty. Terry Prachett
These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in which reputations are edgily tended and a man can be brought low by status anxiety. Poets, or at least this poet, are as earthbound as the rest. Ian Mcewan
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive -..."
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t. Chuck Palahniuk
Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. Margaret Mitchell
Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death. Michael Crichton
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. Thornton Wilder
But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it. Orson Scott Card
In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. Israel Zangwill
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next. Paul Scott
I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? Socrates
I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties. Laurell K. Hamilton
To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one. Christopher Hitchens

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