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"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
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"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
Death
"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
Life
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People
"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
Sex
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
Marriage
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
Hair
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People
"I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was."
Blame
"If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers."
Love
"I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories."
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"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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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."
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"I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't."
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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"
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"More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency."
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