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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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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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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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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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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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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
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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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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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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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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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When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.
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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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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
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Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
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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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