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Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
Actor
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Film Actor
Street Artist
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
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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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Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
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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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I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
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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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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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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
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There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.
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I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
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As long as you're working, you stay young.
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Life's but a day at most.
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I get a standing ovation just standing
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In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
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I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.
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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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