Bob Hoover Quotes
Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.
Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
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Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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I love to clean.
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I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.
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A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
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Action achieves more than words.
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If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'
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Beauty is a form of Genius — is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
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Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.
