Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from danger.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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It's kind of hard to put your finger on it. There are a lot of things that you could sit here and make excuses about or something.
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When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
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What we need is action. The problem for the European Union is that we can only go at the pace of the slowest. Therefore, there is a special responsibility on the countries which have failed so far implementing measures to get moving.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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You have only one life, make the most of it
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Ann Coulter to me is someone who says things that I say all the time, but I say them at three in the morning when I'm drunk as a monkey. She says them at three in the afternoon stone sober in bright daylight.
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Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.
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Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.
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He said until they played Kentucky, they had been working so hard that they didn't even think about racism. They were just too busy working to try to win.
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Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.
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I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
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Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
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When you don’t feel real nothing matters, which makes it impossible to protect yourself from danger.
