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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
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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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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Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.
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As long as you're working, you stay young.
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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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When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.
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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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In those days the best painkiller was ice it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
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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 stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
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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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This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
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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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Say Goodnight Gracie.
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I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
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If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.
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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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Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
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