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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
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Composer
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Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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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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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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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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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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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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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
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One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.
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You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!
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Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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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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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
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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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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
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