Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors makes certain foods taste better, affects the way we care for children, influences what colors we find vibrant, and contributes to our love of socializing, among other examples.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.
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People in Toronto love to watch fights.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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I am opposed to Solidarity because I believe that it is an anti-socialist organisation which desires the overthrow of a socialist state.
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The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
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My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
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Because of the earlier loss of the two elder siblings, my brother and I lived a very pampered and protected life. Nursemaids kept constant watch. With my parents busy at dinner parties and social events, we only met them as if for a daily royal audience.
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It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Having just one insurance provider for all flood risk in the entire country makes no sense.
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Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
