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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.
George Burns
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
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Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
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I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.
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The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
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She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.
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Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
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None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.
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Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me. On the other hand, the fact that I have an unlisted phone number and move a lot might have something to do with it.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.
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I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
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I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
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I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
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Let me get one thing straight I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh . . . like uh . . . like . . . uh . . . well, I'll think of it later.
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What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
George Burns
In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
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