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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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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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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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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'Better never means better for everyone.' The Handmaid's Tale (TV Series 2017)
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
