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How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.
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There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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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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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
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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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At my age flowers scare me.
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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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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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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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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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In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
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If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
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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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Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me. On the other hand, the fact that I have an unlisted phone number and move a lot might have something to do with it.
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I get a standing ovation just standing
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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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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
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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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