Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.Bessel van der Kolk
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
Taylor Caldwell -
I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
Nan Hayworth -
I'm not a control freak.
Fiona Apple -
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
Ramsey Clark -
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
Ornette Coleman
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
Tamron Hall -
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky -
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
P. T. Barnum -
Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln -
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
Maeve Binchy -
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
Ian Hacking
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood -
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
Yogi Berra -
Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
Karen DeCrow -
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame
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I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.
Emma Dumont -
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk -
It's a story of terrific heroism (with) many, many dramatic stories of individuals.
Harold Evans -
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
Maya Angelou -
As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.
Bessel van der Kolk