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As long as you're working, you stay young.
George Burns
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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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Street Artist
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New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.
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How can I die? I'm booked.
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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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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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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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If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
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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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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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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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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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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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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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I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
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