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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. . .
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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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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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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Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of 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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I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
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I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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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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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
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A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.
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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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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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