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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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I am one of the lucky people in the world I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
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Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.
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They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.
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Only lie about the future.
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Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.
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How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?
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Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.
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Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.
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He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.
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I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.
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An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
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There are very few Japanese Jews. As a result, there is no Japanese word for Alan King.
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I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.
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I loved the towns I grew up in as a boy, and after I became a celebrity, I went back several times. I would have had the time of my life seeing the old places and the old faces again, but the attitude of those same people was, I guess you're so big we bore you now.
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Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.
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Democracy means free television, not good television, but free.
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Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.
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Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized.
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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
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Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.
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