Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
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Life's uncertain voyage.
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I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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Body awareness puts us in touch with our inner world.
