Birthday Quotes
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James
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I was only 16 when I was selected for 'Madrasapattinam.' I celebrated my 17th birthday on the set of the film. That was the first time I had travelled to India, and it was a rollercoaster ride. I soon fell in love with the country.
Amy Jackson
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The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
Bill Buford
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I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.
Ashley Jensen
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“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”
Elise Broach
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The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'
Jane Goldman
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
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My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
Sara Blakely
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I get all fired up about aging in America.
Willard Scott
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I didn't want to leave. I played my first game as an 18-year-old here and I got traded on my 36th birthday.
Brian Leetch
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The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift.
Chris Wood
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Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.
Nick Gordon
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The reason that I proposed health savings accounts for everybody starting at birth, is because you very quickly accumulate an amount of money that you can use for your interactions with those health care providers.
Benjamin Carson
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But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.
Ernie Davis
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A friend bought two cakes for his wife's birthday, with a '3' on one and an '8' on the other.
Bill Engvall
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I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney
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Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?
Prince
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You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo
Dana Rosemary Scallon
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If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun.
Rebecca Mader
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Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.
Dylan Lauren
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler Yeats