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In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
Actor
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Street Artist
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
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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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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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Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
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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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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
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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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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
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