"It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere."

Burns, George on Age and Aging
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"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

Burns, George on Age and Aging
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"How can I die? I'm booked."

Burns, George on Age and Aging
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"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it."

Burns, George on Age and Aging
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

Burns, George on Family
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"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

Burns, George on Government
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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."

Burns, George on Hollywood
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"You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made."

Burns, George on Honesty
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"Be quick to learn and wise to know."

Burns, George on Learning
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"Life's but a day at most."

Burns, George on Life and Living
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"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life."

Burns, George on Life and Living
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"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

Burns, George on Passion
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"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

Burns, George on Retirement
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"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."

Burns, George on Change
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