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

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Sin, Wonderful, Fit

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.

  Barbara Gittings

  Acceptance, Heterosexuality, Want

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• As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise I propose: Ban assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel. These weapons are made to kill humans and should be strictly limited. At the same time, allow responsible citizens to own rifles and shotguns. Rifles are for hunting big-game animals, shotguns are for hunting birds; non-automatic versions of these weapons should be available for those with an interest in hunting or target shooting.

  Nick Symmonds

  Military, Hunting, Animal

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• The problem isn't who is in charge. It's what is in charge. The problem is that people are encouraged to function as machines. Or, actually, as mechanisms. Human emotion and sympathy are unprofessional. They are inappropriate to the exercise of reason. Everything which makes people good - makes them human - is ruled out. The system doesn't care about people, but we treat it as if it were one of us, as if it were the sum of our goods and not the product of our least admirable compromises.

  Nick Harkaway

  Exercise, People, Machines

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

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• The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

  Nicky Romero

  Ambition, Games, Goal

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• The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.

  Simon R. Green

  Reality, Men, Victory

  Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin

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• My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three.

  Ellen Barkin

  Husband, Thinking, Three

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• The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises...

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Goal

  The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.

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• What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

  Steven Erikson

  Dirty, Ambition, Throat

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.17, Random House

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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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• 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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