"Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go."

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Lord Chesterfield

#People Quotes #Reputation Quotes #Human Condition Quotes

“I want to thank everybody, all my fans in Israel, all the children, everybody, it's amazing.”
“In love, be willing to fight for them, but never compete.”
“It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.”
“I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.”
“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.”
“I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.”
“Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle.”

Source : Danielle Henderson (2012). “Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory as Imagined from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude”, p.17, Running Press
“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”

Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21

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