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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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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
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Conductor
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Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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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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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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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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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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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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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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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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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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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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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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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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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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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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