The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
BOB HOPEI was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.
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Golf is a funny game. It’s done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I’m the healthiest idiot in the world.
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There’s a very apt saying in show business: “If you don’t go over budget in Paris, you’re either very rich or very sick. “
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
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The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window.
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
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