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"To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be."
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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."

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

"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.'"

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

"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."

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

"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 can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."

"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
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"I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war."

"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."

"I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome."

"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys."
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