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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
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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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She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
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I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.
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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
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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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Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too.
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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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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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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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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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