Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
We deliberately tried to collect just isolated fragments of their experience—particular images, sounds, and feelings—rather than the entire story, because that is how trauma is experienced.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.
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I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small
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Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.
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As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
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I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
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Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.
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We deliberately tried to collect just isolated fragments of their experience—particular images, sounds, and feelings—rather than the entire story, because that is how trauma is experienced.
