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 HOPEWhen 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I’m breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That’s what gives me the strength to break the club.
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I led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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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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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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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I’ve never heard of a clean one.
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I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
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I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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I don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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