Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Sam Harris
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
Lara Logan
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
Gary Johnson
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
Olivia Wilde
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Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
Victor LaValle
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
Natalie Dormer
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
Malcolm Mclaren
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I love overcoming challenges and fear.
Laura Wilkinson
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
Ma Jian
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Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.
Walter Raleigh
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I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.
Zainab Salbi
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It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.
Isaac Asimov
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We are the boysThat fear no noiseWhere the thundering cannons roar.
Oliver Goldsmith
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I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.
Edward R. Murrow
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Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
Alexandre Dumas
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith
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Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.
H. P. Blavatsky
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I really want my acting to be definitive a lot of times, but I must feel like in any given moment there is a lot of things going on with Rose. I kept telling Denzel [Washington] throughout filming [Fences] that the house is her joy and her tomb.
Viola Davis
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Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.
Waite Hoyt
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Fear and aversion, in some perverse way, can be transformed into pleasure.
Bessel van der Kolk