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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?
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Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.
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That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?
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