England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
BOB HOPEI 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
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Don’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
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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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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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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 only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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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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The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he’s not running for anything.
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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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Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
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