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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.
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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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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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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
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I get a standing ovation just standing
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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
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When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
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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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How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
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This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
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I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
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There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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In those days the best painkiller was ice it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
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