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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.

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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
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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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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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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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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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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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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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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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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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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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.
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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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