Robert De Niro Quotes

Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

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• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Fear
  • Diversity
  • Destroy

• My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Bored
  • motivation
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Great
  • Father
  • City

• Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Real
  • Power
  • Win

• Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Long
  • Destroy
  • Cooperation

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Police
  • Destroy

• I propose to build for eternity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Eternity
  • Build
  • Propose

• Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Build
  • Personal
  • Computers

• Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • History
  • Unique

• For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • You
  • Build

• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • History
  • Reputation

• The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Work
  • Career
  • Best

• Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Never
  • Destroy
  • Early

• I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

  

  Donald Trump
  • New York
  • Build
  • Buildings

• It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Start
  • Build
  • Hopefully

• I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Painting
  • Destroy
  • Unconscious

• I just like to build things and do things.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Things
  • Build

• That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destroy
  • Imperialism
  • Associated

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Business
  • Important Things

• That emphasis, from my parents, was always, "if you want something different from this" - they didn't say "better than this," because I'm not sure that they knew anything better, "then get an education."

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Better

• Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

  

  Robert De Niro
  • Destroy
  • Build
  • Reputation