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.
BOB HOPEIn England when you make a movie even the weather is against you.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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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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It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
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A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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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 help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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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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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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