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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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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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
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Speaking to humans was so vastly different from tweeting...But this way we all had to sit in the same set of thoughts for over an hour. The connection felt very good.
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I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.
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In times of old when Nature in her glad excess Brought forth such living marvels as no more are seen, I should have loved to dwell with a young giantess, Like a voluptuous cat about the feet of a queen.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
