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 HOPEEngland occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England
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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
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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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I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.
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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.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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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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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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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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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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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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Chiropractic is a wonderful means of natural healing!
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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
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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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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.
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The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.
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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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Television is the box they buried entertainment in.
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Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
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