Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
BOB HOPEBe happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you’re God’s frozen people.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?
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My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They’re still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.
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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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You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor’s age by the rings on her fingers.
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Golf is a funny game. It’s done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I’m the healthiest idiot in the world.
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The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn’t got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
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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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We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
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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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Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.
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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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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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Lots of travel, away from home.
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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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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
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My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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