Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Anyone who has come into contact with extreme pain, suffering or death has no trouble understanding Greek drama.

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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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I can't take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I'll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
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Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
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But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
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I'm sure there has been something ridiculous to sign, but nothing springs to mind. You have the usual things like breasts and such.
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Have you ever played ping pong up against a wall? You get exhausted a lot quicker than playing against someone. It's the same with getting angry. If you keep getting angry on your own, all that anger will just come back to you.
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We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.
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...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.
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Anyone who has come into contact with extreme pain, suffering or death has no trouble understanding Greek drama.