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Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

Bob Hope

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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
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If they liked you, they didn't applaud -- they let you live.
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With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.
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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 once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'
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