Gijs de Vries Quotes

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.

Gijs de Vries

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Tony Conrad

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You might have a worry that's so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment.

Roz Chast

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I didn't want to be a catcher. It was thrust upon me, as they say in the classics.

Mickey Cochrane

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I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I wanted to jump onto the tuna boat, I wouldn't because I'm not getting high-class babes that I should get at this level of my career. And I always know the ugly ones are serious and that the good-looking ones are goofing on me.

Lisa Lampanelli

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Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Joy Page

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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Josephine Baker

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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

Desi Arnaz

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It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Claudia Christian

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As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade between the U.S. and China - steps that produced a 76 percent increase in U.S. exports to China in just three years.

William M. Daley

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I'm not even Indian-American: I'm Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from 'The Simpsons.' I was nervous because I wasn't sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me.

Priyanka Chopra

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Sometimes, in a fictional story, you can be more honest and truthful, actually. As a journalist, you're a prisoner of the data, in effect. You have to tell the story with evidence you can verify.

Peter Landesman

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The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.

Sebastian Vettel

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