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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.


Brad Holland


#artists #because #come #compromise #contradictions

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.


Aldrich Ames


#cia #come #compromise #compromised #conclusion

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.


Timothy Garton Ash


#compromise #democratic #messy #politics #transitions

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.


Erykah Badu


#art #compromise #feel #free #how

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.


Ambrose Bierce


#adversary #compromise #conflicting #deprived #due

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.


Kjell Magne Bondevik


#find #norway #way

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.


Sarah Brightman


#i #person #sort #time #wife

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.


Edmund Burke


#barter #benefit #compromise #enjoyment #every

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.


Samuel Butler


#compromise #fall #get #herself #impossible

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.


Chris Christie


#believe #bigger #bipartisan #compromise #conservative






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