Bob Hope Quotes
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I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
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Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
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Playing bass for Metallica is like having free speech in Cuba.
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Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.
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By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
