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How can I die? I'm booked.
George Burns
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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
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
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Say Goodnight Gracie.
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As long as you're working, you stay young.
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Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.
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If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
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I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.
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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 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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.
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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
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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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How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
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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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