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George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?
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Johnny Carson
Age: 79 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 23
Died: 2005
Died: January 23
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Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.
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Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.
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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
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There's a big difference between being a loner and being lonely. I'm far from lonely. My day is full of things I enjoy, starting with my show. Any time my work is going well and I have a relationship with a woman that's pretty solid, that does it for me.
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I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.
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An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
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