Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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There's nothing like undeserved credit to make you feel shabby.
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Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.
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There is one thing I don't understand about Astral Weeks. Of all the records I have ever made that one is definitely not rock. You could throw that record at the wall, take it to music colleges, analyze it to death. Nobody is going to tell me that it is a rock album. Why they keep calling it one I have no idea.
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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
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The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.
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As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.
