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Television. That's where movies go when they die.

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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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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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Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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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 my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
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I can still chase women, only downhill
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
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I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.
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The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
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After the 1984 Summer Olympics, Reagan wanted to add the U.S. volleyball team to his Cabinet. He figured if they can't shove his programs down Congress' throat, nobody can.
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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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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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You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.
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America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.
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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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I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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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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