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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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George N. Burns
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I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
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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'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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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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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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