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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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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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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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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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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I like going to the gym every day because I'm in physiotherapy every day.
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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 worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.
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When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
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When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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The great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them.
