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"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."
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"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
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"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."
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"Integrity, once tarnished, or broken, is hard to recover."
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"What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than begin talked about, and that is not being talked about. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion."
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"I am better than my reputation."
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"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."
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"Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around."
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"No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred."
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"If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!"
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"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
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"I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes."
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"I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame."
Character
"My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician."
Music
"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."
Attention
"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
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"I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time."
Time
"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."
Business
"I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint."
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"I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird."
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"Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist."
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