Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
There was no activation of any part of the brain involved in social engagement. In response to being looked at they simply went into survival mode. What does this mean for their ability to make friends and get along with others?
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your lane is naturally. Don't try to force yourself into someone else's vision or try to tell a story that you're not passionate about.
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original.
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At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.
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There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.
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One of my first interviews was Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp for 'Pirates of the Caribbean.' I was in eighth grade at the time, little teenybopper. I was so, so nervous. I just remember Johnny had an aura around him.
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They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.
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If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of nature ourselves.
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Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.
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I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
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I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.
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There was no activation of any part of the brain involved in social engagement. In response to being looked at they simply went into survival mode. What does this mean for their ability to make friends and get along with others?
