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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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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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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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
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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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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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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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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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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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(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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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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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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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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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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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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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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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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