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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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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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I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.
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I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
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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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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. . .
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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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I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.
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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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The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.
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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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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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Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.
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Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
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