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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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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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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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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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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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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I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
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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 get a standing ovation just standing
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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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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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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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Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
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When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'
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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
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At my age flowers scare me.
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The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
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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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And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'
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