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"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
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"The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price."

"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."

"Perception number one, how you want people to think about you when you arrive and perception number two, how you want them to talk about you once you have left."

"If you terminate a person from your life who is very toxic towards your reputation, you can actually lead yourself pertaining a career that you desire without any interference."

"I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it."

"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."

"He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world."

"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."

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

"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."
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"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."

"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."

"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."

"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."

"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."

"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
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