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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The truth is I'm not actually an expert programmer! I really don't consider myself to be an expert at anything. For me, it's more about having a well-rounded and broad horizon. I think that's where a lot of the more interesting things come from - mashing up completely disparate aspects of life to create something new and original.
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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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In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities, but they get built anyway for the games, everybody has kind of wishful thinking about what the afterlife of these spaces is going to be. If there is not demand for it before the Olympics, there's probably not going to be demand for it afterwards.
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Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
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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.
