Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.

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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
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All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which masculine society is firmly based. To put an end to this would be to send the present-day capitalist system flying in a single blow. Only we can't do it by ourselves; there have to be other kinds of attacks on the system. So a certain alliance with revolutionary systems is necessary, even masculine ones.
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
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Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'
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Being traumatized is not just an issue of being stuck in the past; it is just as much a problem of not being fully alive in the present.