Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Deactivation of the left hemisphere has a direct impact on the capacity to organize experience into logical sequences and to translate our shifting feelings and perceptions into words. (Broca’s area, which blacks out during flashbacks, is on the left side.)
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
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Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
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To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills
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The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.
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I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.
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Deactivation of the left hemisphere has a direct impact on the capacity to organize experience into logical sequences and to translate our shifting feelings and perceptions into words. (Broca’s area, which blacks out during flashbacks, is on the left side.)
