I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.
When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?
Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.
Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
When jurors are forced to spend day and night with each other, apart from their families and friends, they become a tribe unto themselves. Because they only have each other for company, and because most people prefer harmony to discord, there's a natural desire to cooperate, to compromise in order to reach agreement.
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
The truth is Floridians and Montanans have more in common than you might think. Both are fed up with partisan gridlock in D.C., and look to their state leaders to find common ground, pursue compromise, and move forward solutions that improve the health of their economy, their communities and their residents.
I won't say I'm uncompromising, but I won't compromise just for the hell of it.
My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.
I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on.
The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.
I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.
Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.
I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.
If you cannot reconcile the difference between the elite that stay behind the scene and the right of the people, that's going to be forever chaos. It's time to compromise, to allow more democracy. Those who are stay behind the scenes must hand off and observe the law.
I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.
I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.
I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s because magazines were publishing the photographs of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin without compromise. You really felt that sense of freedom through their images.
To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.
You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.
Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.
In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.
Saudi Arabia is the country that in the end will determine the ability of the Arabs to reach a compromise with Israel.