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James Wolcott has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress.
— Ronald Reagan
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There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ...…
— Bing Crosby
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Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.
— Hattie McDaniel
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I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields
— Tony Randall
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In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear…
— Clive James
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Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have…
— John Boehner
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Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the…
— Rich Little
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You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope…
— Steve Sabol
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I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another…
— Dick Van Dyke
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I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my…
— Marlo Thomas
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They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
— Christopher Walken
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