Peter A. Levine Quotes

While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.

Peter A. Levine

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Our only security is our ability to change.

John Lilly

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I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Rob Reiner

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Feminists are like the Borg from 'Star Trek.' They don't know anything about other groups beyond the fact that they need to be assimilated into a hivemind that mindlessly follows the orders of a Queen.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

Dick Wolf

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We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.

Deeyah Khan

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What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Chris Gardner

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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

Coco Chanel

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It was always my goal to go back to MMA because my passion is there.

Alistair Overeem

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The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.

Peter Higgs

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Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

Paul Tsongas

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People don't understand how much influence they can actually have on a writer, how much a writer's feelings can be hurt, how much they can deflect his course when they raise their voices like they did over highly personal books like 'Panama' or 'Bullet Park.'

Thomas McGuane

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