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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
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"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."

"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."

"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."

"The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune."

"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."

"If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state."

"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."

"I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise."

"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
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"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."

"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."

"Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."

"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills."

"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."
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