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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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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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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 drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.
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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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There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.
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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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As long as you're working, you stay young.
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I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
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What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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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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Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
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If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl.
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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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In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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