Siri Hustvedt Quotes

Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.

Siri Hustvedt

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Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Joan D. Vinge

TimeThinkingEndEarthWillMay

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

Jerry Spinelli

WomenAgeBaseballMeReadingThink

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

Jesse Ventura

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My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something, and '36 Chambers' was one of them. It was on from then.

Amanda Seales

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I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Tommy Douglas

MindBuildingsWantMonumentsBecome

Definition is the death of discovery.

Tom Shadyac

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When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.

Misty Copeland

I AmPeopleMeBlackLookPerson

You only live once, so I try to say yes to everything.

Joshua Bell

LiveYouSayTryEverythingYes

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.

Clive Anderson

TreesEndYouLookDownEarth

Ray and I both grew up with radio. Our whole hopes for the future were that we'd get into radio.

Bob Elliott

FutureRadioUpGetWholeHopes

We had the best food any battlefield ever had.

William Westmoreland

FoodBestBattlefieldEverAnyHad

My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my 'bowel releasing' schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure.

Susannah Cahalan

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