"And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word."

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Source : Charles Churchill (1774). “The Rosciad. The apology. The prophecy of famine, a Scots pastoral. An epistle to William Hogarth. The ghost. book 1-2”, p.57

Charles Churchill

#Reputation Quotes

“God's got his hands in a lot of human pies.”
“I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.”
“There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.”
“What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.”
“I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?”
“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”

Source : "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.
“For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction...”
“Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.”

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