I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
BOB HOPELots of travel, away from home.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.
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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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I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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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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The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent’s handshake.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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Television. That’s where movies go when they die.
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Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn’t know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He’s always had an agent for that.
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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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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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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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