Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Desensitization: helping patients become less reactive to certain emotions and sensations. But is this the correct goal? Maybe the issue is not desensitization but integration: putting the traumatic event into its proper place in the overall arc of one’s life.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
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But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
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Desensitization: helping patients become less reactive to certain emotions and sensations. But is this the correct goal? Maybe the issue is not desensitization but integration: putting the traumatic event into its proper place in the overall arc of one’s life.
