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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

Bob Hope

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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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Leslie Townes Hope
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I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.
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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 only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.
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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 always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
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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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I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.
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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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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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He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England
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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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The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
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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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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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I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.
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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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The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.
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Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you're God's frozen people.
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I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.
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