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Bob Denver quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.”
-- Bob Denver

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“Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.”
-- Bob Denver

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“When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.”
-- Bob Denver

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“It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.”
“I did experiment with ***** when I was a youth.”
“I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.”
“Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica.”
“I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable”
“I smoke ***** every chance I get.”
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.”
“He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,”
“You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.”
“The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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