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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
"But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days."
"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."
"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
"You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result."
"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."
Explore more quotes by Henry Ossawa Tanner
"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior."
"I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow."
"My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same."
"The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete."
"My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me."
"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind."
"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."
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