She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
BOB HOPECypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
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I’ve always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It’s an island and the audience can’t run very far.
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My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They’re still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I’ve never heard of a clean one.
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At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
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If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
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You know what a fan letter is – it’s just an inky raspberry.
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Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
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Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.
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Television is the box they buried entertainment in.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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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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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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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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I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
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