For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
I had a reputation in high school for making trouble.
People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, that's what they do. So I'm fully comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I've always stood for.
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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.
People will judge you according to your own convictions.
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