Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Because humans are meaning-making creatures, we have a tendency to create some sort of image or story.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.
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I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.
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I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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I don't know if we tell women great news about themselves enough. You'd be surprised how often a young woman doesn't hear positive things about herself - not in her home, not at school. It's hard to create a beautiful image for yourself when you've never seen it or heard it.
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One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.
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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
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Men are foolish creatures sometimes, even the wisest of them.
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.
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No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!
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Because humans are meaning-making creatures, we have a tendency to create some sort of image or story.
