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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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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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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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
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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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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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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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How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
