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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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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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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In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.
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The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
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You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.
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I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.
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In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.
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Anyone who has come into contact with extreme pain, suffering or death has no trouble understanding Greek drama.