Quotes About Reputation

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

Even though I was away from the public eye, I was in the public memory.

Once you've been in the public eye, you are always going to be criticised.

Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

When you are a public figure you will get love and hate both.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I don't like the idea of having a public image. In the end, you have an image of someone, which becomes true whether it is or not.

The papers, you know, they're always gonna just make stuff up. They think it's in the public interest.

Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.

I've been in public office now 14 years, I've been a senior minister for six. There's pretty much a fair bit out there about the kind of person I am and how I apply myself to the job.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

With publicity comes humiliation.

I don't stage my own publicity.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

To me, any publicity is good publicity.