#encounter

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ↗

— Richard Avedon

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As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts. ↗

— Wayne Wonder

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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#agree #beliefs #better #bring #context

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ↗

— E. W. Howe

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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature. ↗

— Federico Chini

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