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Gijs de Vries Quotes

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Heart Intelligence You Security Get

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

Children Myself Child Me Writing

My husband and I are building a 'green' house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we're going to build a house that's green from the ground up.

Green Building Husband House Build

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

Music Time Art Silence Rhythm Point

Ninety per cent of being a parent is just being present and available.

Present Parent Being Available Just

People are entitled to their opinion. I respect them, but it doesn't mean they're right.

Respect People Opinion Mean Right

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

Value You Create Crisis Pay Europe

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

Stellan Skarsgard

Good Beautiful Child Seeing Mood

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

Moment Someone You Expect Exciting

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

Love Prove First Hard Master Would

Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he and it have become a joke.

Now Become Decade Over Joke Honest

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Myself Pizza Down Measurement Make

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

Person Always Visual Been Observer

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