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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
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I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better.
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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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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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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
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There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.
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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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I've been a straight man for so many years that from force of habit I repeat everything. I went out fishing with a fellow the other day and he fell overboard. He yelled, Help! Help! Help! so I said, Help? Help? Help? And while I was waiting for him to get his laugh, he drowned.
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Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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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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This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
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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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Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
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I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.
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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.
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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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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'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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