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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Børge Rosenbaum
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(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
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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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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 oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.
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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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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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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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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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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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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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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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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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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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