Bob Hope Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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Passion is the fuel.
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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
