Bob Hope Quotes
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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It takes a bad woman to be a good godmother.
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Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.
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The true power of love is found in selfless attitudes and actions that seek the best for another person without expecting anything in return. When we act in that way, the feeling of love follows close behind.
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The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.
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I'm going to gut you like a fish.
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
