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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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New York City
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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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Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
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I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.
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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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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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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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At my age flowers scare me.
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Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.
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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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Say Goodnight Gracie.
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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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I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
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It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.
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Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.
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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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I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
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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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