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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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Comedian
Film Actor
Street Artist
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.
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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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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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Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.
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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.
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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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Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
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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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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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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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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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