Quotes by Burns, George

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

Burns, George on age and aging   

"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   

"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   

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

Burns, George on honesty   

"Be quick to learn and wise to know."

Burns, George on learning   

"Life's but a day at most."

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

Burns, George on life
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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   

"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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