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I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.
George Burns
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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
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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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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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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How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.
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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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Life's but a day at most.
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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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With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
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Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
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I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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Let me get one thing straight I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh . . . like uh . . . like . . . uh . . . well, I'll think of it later.
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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
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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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There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
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As long as you're working, you stay young.
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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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Sex after 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
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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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In those days the best painkiller was ice it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
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