Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Looking at this spectrum of angry to sad expressions, the abused kids were hyperalert to the slightest features of anger.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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I love simplicity.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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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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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.
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I softened in my old age.
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I would not really be a part of something that doesn't interest me.
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I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.
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Looking at this spectrum of angry to sad expressions, the abused kids were hyperalert to the slightest features of anger.
