Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

In the same way that people can drive each other mad, the company of people, and being understood by people, can also heal us.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wife

• I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Hard
  • Word
  • Worked

• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Worth
  • Him
  • Worth It

• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Politics
  • Spring

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • Time
  • Song

• On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Two
  • Abortion
  • Fence

• I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Think
  • Hand

• If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Support
  • Woman

• I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Work
  • Play
  • Listen

• Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Good
  • Very
  • Second

• I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Believe
  • Society
  • I Believe

• I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Health
  • Care
  • Need

• All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

  

  Adlai E. Stevenson
  • People
  • Progress

• I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.

  

  Gabrielle Daleman
  • Breathing
  • Yesterday
  • Wednesday

• People have always called me Schneider Monkey just because of my energy and mass consumption of bananas. Plus, I just love monkeys, so I thought, 'Well, I love monkeys, I love my fans, why not put the two together?'

  

  Max Schneider
  • People
  • Why
  • Together

• I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Live
  • Society

• Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Up
  • Commitment
  • Mirror

• In the same way that people can drive each other mad, the company of people, and being understood by people, can also heal us.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • People
  • Drive
  • Heal