Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

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• The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Forever
  • Years
  • Doing

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• Write what you like; there is no other rule.

  

  O. Henry
  • You
  • Like
  • Rule

• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • She
  • Man

• I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Enjoy

• We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Best
  • Feels

• Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Christian
  • Born
  • Well

• Bahrain is very dear to me.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Me
  • Very
  • Dear

• There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Voice

• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Opera

• I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • You
  • My Own

• In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fire
  • Symbol

• In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Humanity

• I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Skin
  • Bleaching

• I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Theatre
  • Movies
  • Broadway

• You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Family
  • Rock

• More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back. More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them. And more government isn't going to inspire new ideas, new businesses and new private sector jobs. It's going to create uncertainty.

  

  Marco Rubio
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• I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Work
  • Done
  • Past

• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

  

  William Pitt
  • Confidence
  • Growth
  • Bosom

• Our brains are built to help us function as members of a tribe.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
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