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"Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right."
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"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."
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"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."
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"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."
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"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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"Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out."
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"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."
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"We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together."
Time
"Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon."
People
"Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability."
Experience
"Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does."
Government
"In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take."
Success
"You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses."
People
"I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money."
Money
"Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage."
Change
"Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past."
Future
"Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward."
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