Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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I like to dress up every now and then.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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我们的原则是党指挥枪，而决不容许枪指挥党。
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It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.
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I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.
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Predicting the market is always tough.
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I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.
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I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if that. Even trying to imagine one year from now makes most people feel like they've been given a huge boring chunk of homework that's too hard to do.
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The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
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Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.
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There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
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You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
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I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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Life goes on, but in two temporal directions at once, the future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.
