I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don’t want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.
What I’ve said about compromise, I hope to build a conservative majority so bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, and get America moving again.
I don’t think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn’t be able to sleep properly.
Marriage should never become an adjustment or a compromise. Both the partners should be equally happy and willing to invest their love, care, and respect in the relationship – only then it works.
Even under Poch, he had a different culture to the British. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand it. You know the British like to have a drink, it was just something that he couldn’t get his head around. He wasn’t willing to compromise on that, either.
You cannot compromise unless people talk to you.
I try to find the right director who won’t compromise his or anyone else’s integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.
In a deeply divided country we must either work together to get the best deal we can – and this needs compromise – or accept that Brexit cannot be implemented and think again about what we are doing.
Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody’s part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.
But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.
When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I believe the practice of taking pledges contributes to the worst of the partisan gridlock in Washington, preventing many members of Congress from even considering a reasonable compromise offered by the other side.
Pakistani and Bangaladeshi infiltrators should be thrown out from the country, and there shouldn’t be any compromise on the issue.
A compromise appears out of reach on the stripping of terrorists’ nationality.
I’m willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I’m not sure I’ll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.
If you start with a compromise, you live with a compromise for a long time.
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.
There’s no compromise to me in what I’m doing. I’m trying to make songs that I love and make them feel a certain way and go to certain places. It just so happens that a lot of 13-year-old girls like that.
Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.
When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, ‘Hey, I’d like you to score this film ‘The Social Network,’ I said, ‘I’m flattered, but I really don’t have any real experience scoring films, and I’d rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don’t want to compromise our friendship.’
As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It’s a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it’s in the best interest of the citizens.
In offering deals on immigration, infrastructure, and prison reform, President Trump has demonstrated that he is ready for compromise. But will Democrats take up his offer?
If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.
I miss the New York bagel but miss the New York bialy even more. It’s a great compromise of bagel feeling with less dough stuffing.
The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.
There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.
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.
My grandmother, if she were still alive, she’d be very proud that I held through and did a film in Korean and didn’t compromise and then start using that foreign language of English.
I don’t like compromise. In politics, you have to always choose a compromise, and sometimes, that, I don’t like.
Every time I’ve made a big decision in my life, it’s been about letting in the possibility that maybe I could do something that I actually wanted to do and not letting people tell me that I should compromise or that it’s too big of a dream.
There should not be an entitlement that because you get paid the most money, that you should finish every game. But if you don’t do it, then the agents are going to call, and the players are going to mope, and so you negotiate that. It’s a compromise as a coach.
I’m not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.
If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that’s going to be forever chaos. It’s time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.
It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
A big part of being in a relationship or marriage or whatever is you have to eventually compromise. Your life doesn’t end up exactly the way you think it’s going to, and if it’s the right relationship, you might have to compromise what you’re doing professionally.
If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it’s vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.
On some issues, Republicans and Democrats disagree so sharply that compromise is nearly impossible. Republicans are not going to support a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gases, and Democrats won’t support a 1,000-mile wall on the border with Mexico.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
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.
You want a career? Do that first. You don’t want to have kids? Then don’t. You don’t want to get married? Then don’t. But once you do something, you’ve got to know that there is compromise.
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we’re trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn’t.
I’m not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I’m very materialistic myself – but there’s a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren’t being exploited.
You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it’s time for me to get married!
Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you’re going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it’s going to be a compromise.
The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it’s going to be under pressure.
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
If you believe in free markets, I don’t want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that’s the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.
It took me months or maybe a year to understand that there are so many cheap men out there who would ask you to ‘compromise’ or ‘oblige.’
Our attitudes are fostered by a society built on ideas of dominance, where the solution to crises are force and action, rather than reflection and compromise.
I don’t want to compromise on my singing or drop down its level to start acting.
Some people feel divorce is an excuse to not compromise. Yes, in life you have to adapt and compromise. But the questions is – when does it stop? How much is too much, how less is too little? That’s a personal choice.
