Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
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Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
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We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.
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Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery.
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My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.
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The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.
