#prestige

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#been #carry #commitments #democracy #effectively

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. ↗

— Adolph Green

#big #certain #class #folk #had

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#grammy #importance #know #links #people

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#fat man #having #just #lazy #man

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#begun #could #country #elected #faith

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#area #attain #aware #bulgaria #contingent

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States. ↗

— Peter Singer

#america #around #clearer #damage #doing

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#adolescent #around #clear #data #eyes

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#court #easy #enhance #exercising #prestige

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

#big #big deal #books #deal #even