Bob Monkhouse Quotes
When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
Quotes to Explore
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
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I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.
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Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
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In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.
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The spirits that I summoned upI now can't rid myself of.
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'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print;A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
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The above proposition is occasionally useful.
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If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.
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The target for every great champion is to play for the team.
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So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.
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I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
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I have a lot of respect for coach D'Antoni. He's one of the really class acts in this league who is willing to share. He's really impacted this league in a big way.
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I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.
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When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
