That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.
For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York… three nights.
Maybe you could put it out there that I don’t have a built-in dislike of ballads. That was kind of the reputation I had back in the Seventies. But I’ve come around. Ballads have become something of an acquired taste.
I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to… I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don’t make that public.
My reputation is the main reason why a lot of things don’t go my way on the court.
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being ‘tough’; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
I don’t want to be known as someone who is deliberately trying to do things that are not commercial! That is not a good reputation to have when you’re trying to be a working actor.
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn’t write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
I’m not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.
It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.
Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian – amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there’s no going back to the old days.
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don’t think it’s arrogance but a certain authenticity.
Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.
As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as ‘Attila the Hun.’ I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
