Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.Bessel van der Kolk
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
Kara Walker -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater -
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
Lara Pulver -
I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Rani Mukerji -
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
Adam Cohen -
A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
Laila Robins -
Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
Galveston Giant -
When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
Paloma Faith
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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
Natalie Gulbis -
Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
Yair Lapid -
The word vagina is a beautiful word, like all words that have v's and g's in them, like gavel, or evangelical. I love vaginas, and evangelicals. I fucking hate gavels though.8
Ze Frank -
Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
Jack London -
But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.
Hans Blix -
When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
Alicia Witt
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A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.
Ken Jeong -
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.
Francis Bacon -
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
Adam Cohen -
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson -
It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.
Jared Sparks -
The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable, and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality: the reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side by side with a ruinous, ever-present past.
Bessel van der Kolk