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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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
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When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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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.
