The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
BOB HOPEA 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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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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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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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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The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
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Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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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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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
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I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
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