Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
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I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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I've had so many injuries.
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Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.
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In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.
