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If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

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George Burns
Age: 100 †
Born: 1896
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: March 9
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Street Artist
Television Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Nathan Birnbaum
George N. Burns
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It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.
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A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
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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 smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
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Say Goodnight Gracie.
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