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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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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.
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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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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. 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 place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.
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The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.
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You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.
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I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.
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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'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.
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To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.
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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
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If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many 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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It sure has been a pleasure for us to broadcast for the sailors and soldiers besides, its part of the National Defence Program to prepare our boys for anything.
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