Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Home drunk—hearing their footsteps on the landing and how they waited for them to come in, pull them out of bed, and punish them for some imagined offense.
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When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.
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Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives.
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Under certain social circumstances, which may have varied from time to time and place to place, certain people (shamans) saw a relationship between the small, three-dimensional, projected mental images that they experienced at the far end of the intensified spectrum and fragments of animals that lay around their hearths.
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I would vote for Johnny Depp. We could use a president that could swashbuckle.
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Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.
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It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.
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Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
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We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.
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I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.
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Funny stuff? Bringing back “Pain for Pleasure” every night on our nine week tour was the funniest, most hysterical thing ever, and being a part of that and making the behind-the-scenes videos about it was just super fun.
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the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."
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It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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Home drunk—hearing their footsteps on the landing and how they waited for them to come in, pull them out of bed, and punish them for some imagined offense.
