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Life's but a day at most.

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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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I get a standing ovation just standing
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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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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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When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'
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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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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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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 smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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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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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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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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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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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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