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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

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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Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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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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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
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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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...the elephant smoked too much.
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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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Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
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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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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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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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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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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 only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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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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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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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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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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