Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
We can hope to solve the problems of these children only if we correctly define what is going on with them and do more than developing new drugs to control them or trying to find “the” gene that is responsible for their “disease.” The challenge is to find ways to help them lead productive lives and, in so doing, save hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. That process starts with facing the facts.
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People take things so seriously.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
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Es ist niemals ein Dokument der Kultur, ohne zugleich ein solches der Barbarei zu sein.
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I've been down a long road;I'd become a stranger to myself.Digging in my heels and hoping time might be kinder if I wait it out.But nothing came from wanting.And I became so small and insecure.Didn't know the cost of all I'd lost till I found it fresh and new again.
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
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Freedom is a part of protest as well.
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The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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I had always considered sex an ultimate sticky reality, the least mediated contact possible with another body. Instead, after that experience, I was convinced that sex is an extreme product of the imagination. The greater the pleasure, the more the other is only a dream, a nocturnal reaction of belly, breasts, mouth, anus―of every isolated inch of skin―to the caresses and thrusts of a vague entity definable according to the necessities of the moment.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
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We are all the writer-director-star-producer of our own life. We see life through our own eyes.
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We can hope to solve the problems of these children only if we correctly define what is going on with them and do more than developing new drugs to control them or trying to find “the” gene that is responsible for their “disease.” The challenge is to find ways to help them lead productive lives and, in so doing, save hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. That process starts with facing the facts.
