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" A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists' nationality. "

Francois Hollande

" A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. "

" A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise. "

" Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney. "

" After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. "

" Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals. "

" A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. "

" All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take. "

" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "

" All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value? "

" A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. "

George Jean Nathan

" Among directing teams, you find a high percentage of brothers. You need the ability to compromise. With siblings, you've grown up with a pattern that, yeah, every once in a while you have to give in for the greater good, for the family collective. "

" Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise. "

" Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise. "

Richard Thompson

" And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done. "

" And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story. "

" Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting. "

Michael Spiller

" As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. "

" As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given. "

" As a team, we're all inside a bubble. Each of us only has so much room to operate. You have to carve out your space and recognize that because of someone else's needs, you might have to compromise a bit. "

" As we've come along, we've educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it. "

Rhett McLaughlin

" At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it. "

L. Lionel Kendrick

" Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise. "

" Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great. "

" Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. "

" Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them. "

" Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career. "

" But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs. "

Gregory Harrison

" But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy. "

Timothy Garton Ash

" By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail. "

Natan Sharansky

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