Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Porges coined the word “neuroception” to describe the capacity to evaluate relative danger and safety in one’s environment.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
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The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Prior to joining NSD, I was briefly associated with a small theater group in Delhi called Sakshi. Saurabh Shukla, Manoj Bapayee were my seniors in that group. I performed a few supporting roles in Sakshi plays.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.
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I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.
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I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
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If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.
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I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it’s much better musically than much of what’s available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content. One good believable song about some guy’s girlfriend and how they broke up - a sincere one - is better than twenty albums of English rock that’s ever been produced.
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As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
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Porges coined the word “neuroception” to describe the capacity to evaluate relative danger and safety in one’s environment.
