Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
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We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
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New thinking. Unleashing growth that creates opportunity. Promoting development that lifts all people out of poverty.Supporting democracy that gives citizens their say. Advancing the security and justice that delivers peace. Respecting the human rights of all people. These are the keys to progress - not just in Africa, but around the world.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
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You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
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All mothers go through the exact same things.
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I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years,' so I was like 'OK, I'll just be a lawyer'.
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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
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In violence, we forget who we are.
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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
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It was the final session of the Council, the most essential, in which the Pope [Paul VI] was to bestow upon all humanity the teachings of the Council. He announced this to me on that day with these words, ‘I am about to blow the seven trumpets of the Apocalypse.’
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Words could be just as deadly as steel.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
