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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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I get a standing ovation just standing
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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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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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I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.
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The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
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Life's but a day at most.
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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.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
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If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
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Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .
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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 don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.
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It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.
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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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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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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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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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