Bob Hoover Quotes

I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it.

Bob Hoover

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• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Write

• Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Opportunity
  • Study
  • Child

• My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Feeling

• I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Movie
  • Girl
  • Opportunity

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Live
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Unique

• We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Opportunity
  • Law
  • Justice

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

  

  Hamadoun Toure
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Customer

• Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Opportunity
  • Disappointment

• When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about the character, and then you can fill in the gaps. When you are doing a cabaret show, it's very personal. You have the opportunity to share parts of yourself with an audience and figure out how you want to connect.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Character
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Work
  • Character
  • Opportunity

• I look to women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth.

  

  Jennifer Lopez
  • Women

• Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Why

• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Travel
  • Lot
  • Speaking

• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it.

  

  Bob Hoover
  • Opportunity
  • Survive
  • Possess