Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

If you do something to a patient that you would not do to your friends or children, consider whether you are unwittingly replicating a trauma from the patient’s past.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  

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• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

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• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

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• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
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• The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

  

  Eavan Boland
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• Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I really believe at the end of the day, regardless of how noble you are or how patriotic the film might be, it has to serve as entertainment in order for your audiences to come into the theatre and watch it. Otherwise, audiences will wait and see it a few months later when it is premiered on television.

  

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• If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.

  

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• All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.

  

  Bill Pullman

• I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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• As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.

  

  Alex Wolff
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• I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.

  

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• I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

  

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• Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

  

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• It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

  

  Carl Karcher
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• None of my friends really have Twitter. They mainly all have Facebook. I have Facebook too, but I like Twitter more.

  

  Maude Apatow
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• When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
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• If you do something to a patient that you would not do to your friends or children, consider whether you are unwittingly replicating a trauma from the patient’s past.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Patient