Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
two critical aspects of the adaptive response to threat that is basic to human survival.
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I think all politicians lie.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.
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The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
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Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
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Experience teaches only the teachable…
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The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.
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Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'
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If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.
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California - with more cars, more drivers and more people - still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.
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It's great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.
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El Paso is where I started. I don't feel like I'd be making the music I'm making now if I hadn't gone there.
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Horror used to be one thing, and I think that's starting to broaden - there can have subgenres, and other things can be going on in a horror story. In comics, you'll never get the 'Boo' effect in a comic; you can go for mood, atmosphere and personal tragedy to build the horror elements and sense of dread.
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What's interesting about the transportation market is that you're often dabbling in multiple categories. The same person who might own a car is still using Uber, is still using a taxi, still might go to Avis on a business trip and rent a car.
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I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.
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I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.
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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
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two critical aspects of the adaptive response to threat that is basic to human survival.
