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• I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love Is, Intimate Relationships, Self

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• I think quite often we hold onto trauma because we don't process it.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Thinking, Process

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• All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of Paradise Lost," are immigrant narratives - their dreams, their traumas, their struggles - and I write them with the confidence that these stories, written from the heart, will belong, in time, to America.

  Andrew Lam

  Dream, Struggle, Book

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

  Robin Williams

  Way, Comedy, Cathartic

  "Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 12, 2013.

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• I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

  Jodi Picoult

  Drama, Writing, Able

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• I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

  Chath Piersath

  People, Stories, Connected

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

  Alanis Morissette

  Art, Healing, Journey

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette" by Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Father, Thinking, Focus

  "Lindsay Lohan On Her Trial, Her Career, And The Reasons She Lost Control". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 31, 2010.

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• The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Criticism

  "A Trap for Republicans". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 13, 2013.

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• Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Fun, Passion, Punishment

  Source: sojo.net

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• The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Principles, Foreign Policy, Seventies

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• We know that the warming rising seas will swallow entire island nations that are about 25 percent of the UN vote and perhaps at the end, even our civilization. This realization is traumatic and the first reaction to trauma is denial. Since there is some remaining scientific uncertainty, a natural response is to deny that change is occurring. This is natural but it is very dangerous.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Sea, Civilization, Islands

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.

  Chath Piersath

  Overcoming Addiction, People, Community

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

  John Lennon

  Nice, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

  Pam Grier

  Mother, Winning, Issues

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.

  Patricia Leavy

  Opportunity, People, September 11

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• All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Writing, Love Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the top challenges is the fact that you are dealing with survivors. Every time you deal with a documentary film subject it is fraught with obvious minefields but when you are dealing with a population that is severely traumatized and trying to recover from that trauma there is an extra level of vigilance and care and attention that has to be implemented all the time at every level.

  Amy Ziering

  Challenges, Trying, Population

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life and I don't have to be. I always try to understand what would lead an individual to being that way, to being oblivious to the fact that he's somewhat insensitive and scared of commitment, and that psychological journey, and what traumas may have occurred in this person's childhood to bring him to that point.

  Romany Malco

  Real, Commitment, Journey

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.

  Christian Boltanski

  Father, War, Believe

  "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

  Lulu

  Emotional, Self, Normal

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• The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time is really the stuff that interests me.

  Steven Bochco

  Dog, Divorce, Emotional

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concussion, as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on the physical and emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else. I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately.

  Edward Kennedy

  Responsibility, Emotional, Doctors

  "Senator Edward Kennedy's famous quotes excerpted from speeches (List)". www.ibtimes.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Moving, Healing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.

  Fauja Singh

  Running, Grief, Forget

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