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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.
Victor Borge
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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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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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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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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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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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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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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 don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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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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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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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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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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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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