Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason.
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Emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason.
