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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."
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"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."
"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."
"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."
"You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result."
"I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence."
"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."
Explore more quotes by Henry Ossawa Tanner
"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."
"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."
"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."
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