Bob Hope Quotes
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
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I went off. They were unforced turnovers, too.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.
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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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Man is not an aquatic animal, but from the time we stand in youthful wonder beside a Spring brook till we sit in old age and watch the endless roll of the sea, we feel a strong kinship with the waters of this world.
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
