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I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Street Artist
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.
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In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
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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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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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Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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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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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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At my age flowers scare me.
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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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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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Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
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How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
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If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
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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 drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
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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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Life's but a day at most.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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