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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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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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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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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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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
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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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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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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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