Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
A stern schoolteacher may be an intimidating presence to an average kid, but for a child whose stepfather beats him up, she may represent a torturer and precipitate a rage attack or a terrified cowering in the corner.Bessel van der Kolk
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
Nathan Fielder -
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond -
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
Aaron Eckhart -
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown -
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
Patrick Modiano
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
Panayiotis Zavos -
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
Cameron Diaz -
I'm a man without a corporation.
Paddy Chayefsky -
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
Sam Raimi
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
Patricia Polacco -
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama -
I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
Taya Kyle -
I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
Halima Aden -
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
Barry Eisler -
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
Wadada Leo Smith
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Uma Thurman -
I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
Kate Winslet -
A stern schoolteacher may be an intimidating presence to an average kid, but for a child whose stepfather beats him up, she may represent a torturer and precipitate a rage attack or a terrified cowering in the corner.
Bessel van der Kolk