I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
BOB HOPEPersonally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
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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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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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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
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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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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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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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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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She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
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Everybody is afraid they won’t have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.
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Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn’t get elected, he’d go back to acting.
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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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