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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman.
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Almost every woman I've met has encountered bullying.
In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.
Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.
'True Blood' fans are as enthusiastic as any fans I've ever encountered.
I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.
From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.
Some of the oddest foods I've encountered are 'American' foods represented internationally.
Golf is the only sport I've encountered where you can really suck but still have a good time.
Unfortunately, sometimes the unexpected can be something that you wish you never encountered.
When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.
I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
David Cohen is without a doubt one of the best - if not the best - public servant I've ever encountered.
English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.
Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.
When I first encountered Shakespeare as a boy, I read every word this man has written. To me, he is like an African storyteller.
I've been lucky that I haven't encountered much adversity growing up in London and having friends from all different backgrounds.
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
I have encountered thousands of value investors over the years and am constantly struck by their differences - and their similarities.
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.
I encountered on a regular basis rude comments and sexual innuendo and cat calls and overt sexual propositions in professional settings.
I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.
My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
