Courtois was rated highly enough by Chelsea to go back and replace Petr Cech, one of the best goalkeepers of modern times. He has lived up to his reputation.
I’ve sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, ‘He does this,’ I’m not standing there anymore.
I do have this reputation for being a serious person.
I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there’s some truth to that.
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.
I have joy. Canadians have the reputation of making dark movies because we are in this society where we have the space to explore darkness. That’s the way I see it.
I’ve been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I’m being is truthful and honest. And I think that’s been a thorn in my side.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
As far as being the guy and really the first guy with the reputation to sign on to be a part of ‘Lucha Underground,’ I take a great deal of pride in it.
Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.
The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.
Everyone knows Mike Portnoy’s reputation. He’s a great drummer, and he helped us out in a great time of need. He really helped us get back underneath our feet and continue this band.
I was 20 years old when I started playing in the Premier League. Maybe mentally I wasn’t quite prepared for it, and that has earned me a reputation.
The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets – but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
Obviously, I’m still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I’m not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been.
John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.
You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.
Why movie and dance critics are taking ‘The Company’ seriously, I can’t imagine. Are they impressed by Altman’s reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?
Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.
Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan’s image.
Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
The Senate has a reputation as quite a collegial place, and I have found that to be true, especially with the women.
I absolutely haven’t set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.
Knowing that my granddad was a highly respected actor wasn’t necessarily intimidating, but it definitely meant there was always a pressure to live up to his reputation. I think that’s why acting wasn’t something I even considered doing, as a kid.
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.
I’ve never sampled just one artist, I’m known for my reputation and my creativity.
Andrade had a large reputation to uphold because of his rich family heritage in Mexico, and he upheld that reputation because of my management behind the scenes.
Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.
Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?
Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.
I do think of my films as morality plays, even though my reputation is, you know, splatter films and like that. But I think of them as very moral.
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
I’m very cautious of how I’m presented and my type of reputation.
Ever since I became a Muslim, I’ve had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.
If somebody has a bad reputation on the internet or if they have a really good reputation on the internet, I don’t care. I want to meet said person and make up my mind for myself, and then go from there.
I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain’s greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive – and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger – or my own reputation.
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the ‘fast’ guitar players.
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.
A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady.’
My reputation precedes me now.
I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn’t a ‘bomb thrower’ like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.
I play in a league that’s 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I’m going to listen to those guys.
I think success is a relative term. If you’re a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It’s exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.
Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Malaysia Airlines is a robust airline – it’s been around for many years. It has an excellent reputation, both for service and for safety.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I’d be so happy.
I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like ‘Clown’ and ‘Mountains’ that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.
In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that’s not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.
I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.
