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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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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 look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better.
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When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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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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Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.
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When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.
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It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.
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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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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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