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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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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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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I understand those who don't like me.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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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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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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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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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
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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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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.
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If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
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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.
