Bob Hope Quotes
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same stage, and that was a wonderful experience.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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The review I've been most offended by came when I played Hamlet. I'd always prided myself on being an 'invisible actor' and not getting in the way of the play. But this review didn't mention me once. That's worse than being insulted.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
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One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations.
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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
