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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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
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Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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As long as you're working, you stay young.
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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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I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
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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 you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
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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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I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
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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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I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
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When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.
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In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.
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I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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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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Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
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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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