Quotes About Compromise

I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.

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.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

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.

When the power grid gets compromised the coal from Appalachia can be trucked to our power plants so they can be put back on line as quickly as possible.

For most of my life, I've considered myself a political centrist.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Nobody wants a stalemate in constitutional development.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have.

I married a man who convinced me that he loved me, who looked lonely and who I thought had the same ideas about life and the same goals, but we were just too different.

Cooperation is more important than reunification. If reunification is achieved without cooperation, it will be meaningless.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

I avoid conflict - like, any conflict - at all costs. I hate it. Even at a restaurant, if I get the wrong order, I'll just eat it anyway because I don't want to make an issue.

If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.

If I eat too righteously, I turn to crisps and crappy chocolate bars.

I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.

The place I am always looking for - because in order to keep the business, I need to make a little compromise between my values and customers' values - is the place where I make something that could almost - but not quite - be understood by everyone.

Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.