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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
Victor Borge
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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Børge Rosenbaum
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
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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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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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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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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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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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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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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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