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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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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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Nothing
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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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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
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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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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.
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...the elephant smoked too much.
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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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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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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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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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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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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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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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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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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.
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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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