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If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.
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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My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.
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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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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
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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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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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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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I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better.
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Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.
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Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.
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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 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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Say Goodnight Gracie.
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When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
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