Compromise Quotes - Page 8

• Legislation is the art of compromise.

  Harry Reid

  Art, Legislation

  "Reid: Iraq Problems Are Presidential, Not Military". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. April 23, 2007.

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• Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sin, Wonderful, Fit

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• Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

  Kevin McCloud

  People

  "Kevin McCloud: 'I am a big fan of composting toilets'" by Damian Carrington, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2013.

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• You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

  Tim Roth

  Movie, Dog, Fiction

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• Everyday is a compromise.

  David Letterman

  Everyday

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• The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

  Gary Sinise

  Jobs, Hollywood, Actors

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• Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

  George Eads

  Real, Thinking, Littles

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• I think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, People, May

  "Rick Santorum: Women In Combat Could Create ‘Compromising Situation’ Because Of ‘Emotions’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Communication, House

  Gerald R. Ford's address to a joint session of Congress, August 12, 1974.

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• That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

  Paul Walker

  Real, People, Hollywood

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• A key difference between a dialogue and an ordinary discussion is that, within the latter people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. At best this may produce agreement or compromise, but it does not give rise to anything creative.

  David

  Keys, Views, Agreement

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• Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Successful, Names, Perfect

  "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Interview with Christian Lund, the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, August 24, 2012.

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• Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

  Cee Lo Green

  Acceptance, Understanding, Tolerance

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• What's the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What's the price of that? And I don't know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I'm a different person. I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

  Emilio Estevez

  Thinking, Soul, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

  Lauryn Hill

  Dream, Real, Humanity

  "The Middle Man". Book by Lauryn Hill, 2003.

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• We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!

  Patrick Stewart

  Fall, Space, Done

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• When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

  John Spence

  Life Changing, Thinking, People

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• Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.

  William A. Dembski

  Art, Knowing, Design

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• I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Trying, Welcome

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Mind, Erode, Empires

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Oil, Buttons

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• Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

  Ted Cruz

  Cat, Government, Littles

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