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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

Bob Hope

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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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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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Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.
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I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight - and that was just their hair.
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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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Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.
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If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I 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.
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Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.
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The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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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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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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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.
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I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?
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I don't know what people have against government they haven't done anything.
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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. One of our stock lines used to be There's nothing I wouldn't do for Bing, and there's nothing he wouldn't do for me. And that's the way we go through life - doing nothing for each other!
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
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Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It's going to get us out of the house after dark!
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