#counter

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#allow #case #characters #childhood #comics

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#been #cancer #encountered #i #never

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies. ↗

— Pierce Brosnan

#because #clue #consequently #counters #crap

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#earn #entrepreneurs #found #i #less

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. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#eight #encountered #his #i #learned

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#absurd #any #encounter #i #level

You know there are so many people that have touched your life both on the ice and within your career in the NHL whether it be owners, GM's, coaches, players, trainers, all the way down. And that doesn't even account for all of the people that you encountered outside of the game that you met along this trip, too. ↗

— Ron Francis

#along #both #career #coaches #down

...sometimes we can’t enjoy the bloom of a rose because we’re too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn. ↗

— Suzannah Daniels

#ghostly-encounter #inspiration #life #mia #randall

Having a dissenting opinion on movies, music, or clothes, or owning clever or obscure possessions, is the way middle-class people fight one another for status...Hipsters, then, are the direct result of this cycle of indie, authentic, obscure, ironic, clever consummerism...It is ironic in the sense the very act of trying to run counter to the culture is what creates the next wave of culture people will in turn attempt to counter. ↗

— David McRaney

#hipsters #movies

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically. ↗

— Francis Chan

#christian #christianity #counter-cultural #discipleship #normal