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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Street Artist
Television Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
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Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
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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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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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I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
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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'd rather be over the hill than under 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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The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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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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How can I die? I'm booked.
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Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
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I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
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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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I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.
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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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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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