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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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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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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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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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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I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.
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Blood will have blood.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
