"I am better than my reputation"

-- Friedrich Schiller

#Reputation Quotes

“People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power”
“I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.”
“Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.”

Source : Stanley Kauffmann (2001). “Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment”, Performing Arts Journal Books
“In order to create a permanent atmosphere of change, that's where the solidarity economy of change comes in. You don't want to simply invest in what exists already hoping that the next group of entrepreneurs are not as greedy as the last one.”

Source : Source: bknation.org
“What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.”
“Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.”

Source : Julie Orringer (2010). “The Invisible Bridge”, p.73, Vintage
“On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across”

Source : Wendy Cope (2011). “Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006”, p.34, Faber & Faber
“The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.”

Source : "Obama to Hispanics on immigrants: I see my kids", www.foxnews.com. June 22, 2012.

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