If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.
GEORGE BURNSEverything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
More George Burns Quotes
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The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
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Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
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It’s good to be here. At 98, it’s good to be anywhere.
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I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
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I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it.
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I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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