Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Since 2001 far more Americans have died at the hands of their partners or other family members than in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. American women are twice as likely to suffer domestic violence as breast cancer.

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• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Progress
  • Discrimination

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Food
  • Myself
  • Speak

• It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Good
  • Book
  • Worry

• All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Business
  • Just

• The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

  

  Wale
  • Want
  • Political
  • Internet

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Money
  • Never
  • Independent

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Challenges
  • Security
  • Face

• I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

  

  Karl Malden
  • Work
  • Love
  • Play

• I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

  

  Obie Trice
  • School
  • Style
  • Cats

• I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • People
  • Business
  • Small

• Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Wife

• I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Boss

• What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Black

• When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Party
  • Slavery
  • Racism

• I hate this idea that we, as Americans, are going to say we're going to have a sense at the border, someplace else, that - to figure out whether or not Muslims can come to the United States.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Hate
  • Idea
  • Americans

• You're not a slave to those test audiences.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Slave
  • Test

• I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Rain

• Since 2001 far more Americans have died at the hands of their partners or other family members than in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. American women are twice as likely to suffer domestic violence as breast cancer.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Cancer
  • Americans
  • Partners