Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason.
Bessel van der Kolk
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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.
Yossi Sarid
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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.
Barney Frank
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
Mandy Moore
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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!
Yvonne Strahovski
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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!
Tasha Smith
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Orlando Bloom
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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.
Rami Malek
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
Zell Miller
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
Venus Williams
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
Idries Shah
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Clarence Day
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One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
Willa Cather
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Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to my daughter on a plane. She was sitting next to a girl who was reading one of my books and my daughter said, "My mother wrote that book." And the girl started to quiz my daughter, asking her all sorts of questions, like what are the names of Judy's children and where did she grow up. My daughter thought it was so funny.
Judy Blume
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Emotion is not opposed to reason; our emotions assign value to experiences and thus are the foundation of reason.
Bessel van der Kolk
