Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Sroufe informally told me that he thought that resilience in adulthood could be predicted by how lovable mothers rated their kids at age two.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
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No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
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The thing that happened in Ferguson touched many of us in a specific way.
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As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.
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Sroufe informally told me that he thought that resilience in adulthood could be predicted by how lovable mothers rated their kids at age two.
