Bob Hope Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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Yes, it's still a man's world, unfortunately, and we have a long way to go in this country and all countries - but there's something to be said for just feeling the spirit of a true man, and I think that's what 'Classic Man' speaks to.
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The thinner a newspaper or magazine is - due to reduced revenue from advertising dollars - the less editorial content because of the standard ad-to-editorial ratio, and the less money there is to support investigative journalism.
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I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.
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I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.
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I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.
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I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
