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Gijs de Vries Quotes

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: dutch
Birth: February 22, 1956

Topics

Work Intelligence Limits Information

I don't need friends.

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway.

Robert Sternberg

Time Death Me Believe You Say

The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

God Today Freedom Sacrifice People

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

Stephen McCauley

Easy You Serious More Up Side

Love is stronger than justice.

Love Justice Love Is Stronger Than

I'm going to be the champion for a long time.

Time Champion Long Long Time Going

I share the skepticism that my friends have about NAFTA. It was woefully weak in protecting workers and on the enforcement side. The question is can we meaningfully build a trade regime that has as its North Star protecting American workers and American jobs through meaningful enforcement? I think we can.

Think American Friends Build Weak

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

Good Best Baseball Rising Pitch

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

Great Laughter Heaven Know Would

The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.

Life Great Rest Week You Acting

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

Age Believe Fighting Temptation Way

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

Women Relationship Mind Someone You

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