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"Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides."
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"The company you keep determines how others view you. Identify with mediocrity and you will be labeled sub par. Collaborate with questionable people and your reputation becomes suspect. Guilt by association can end a career, hurt your business and cost you friends. Choose alliances wisely or you may be condemned for someone else's sins."

"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."

"A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment."

"That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!"

"For your fourth consoling thought, I would point out that in this venue,' a wave of his finger took in Vorbarr Sultana, and by extension Barrayar, 'acquiring a reputation as a slick and dangerous man, who would kill without compunction to obtain and protect his own, is not all bad. In fact, you might even find it useful.''Useful! Have you found the name of the Butcher of Komarr a handy prop, then, sir?' Miles said indignantly.His father's eyes narrowed, partly in grim amusement, partly in appreciation. 'I've found it a mixed . . . damnation."

"Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars."

"It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us."

"When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break."

"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."
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"Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while."

"I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs."

"I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me."

"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline."

"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."
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