Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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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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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
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The little man on the wedding cake.
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The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.
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When he said he was going to stop the march and called it a hate march, I think that was very provocative. The Mayor's statements have created a climate that could possibly lead to some kind of confrontation.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
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Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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The relation of a building to its function needs to be much less schematic and formal if you want to produce good architecture.
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Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.
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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
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Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.
