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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I talk about everything. I'm like the person who comes home and can't hide anything. Even my friends sometimes are like, 'Kate, you've got to stop talking so much about your life.' And I'm like, 'Why?' I can't keep things in, really.
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I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
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You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
