Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Make us vulnerable to others’ negativity, so that we respond to their anger with fury or are dragged down by their depression.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
Ulrich Beck
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
Gary Locke
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
Isaac Hayes
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
Ian Mcewan
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
Malcolm Fraser
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Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I'm not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don't want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.
Yami Gautam
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. Housman
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
Aaron Eckhart
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
Sally Ride
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If a woman is financially independent, she can definitely make a bigger contribution in making big decisions and contribute much more. If a woman is financially independent, she can pursue her interests, too.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
David Alan Grier
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
Geoff Dyer
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There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
Jarvis Cocker
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Make us vulnerable to others’ negativity, so that we respond to their anger with fury or are dragged down by their depression.
Bessel van der Kolk
