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.
BOB HOPEIt was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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Don’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
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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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I don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
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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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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
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She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
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Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I’ve never heard of a clean one.
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I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, “Don’t worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it’s obsolete.”
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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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