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" About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time. "

Sia

Birthday

Life

Music

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" I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. "

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" Your children need your presence more than your presents. "

Jesse Jackson

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" I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. "

Otis Blackwell

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" I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want. "

" School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school. "

Lili Reinhart

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" I love the writing and performing, but everything in between sucks. "

" Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off. "

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" God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. "

Voltaire

Gift

God

" I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion. "

" I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' "

" I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days. "

Rachael Ray

Cake

Food

" I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties. "

Yigal Azrouel

Company

Play

" I dated a guy for over a year who lied about his age the entire time. I found out after the fact and couldn't believe it! I even threw him a birthday party for the wrong age... I couldn't get over how hard he had tried to keep it a secret! "

" Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning. "

" I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays! "

" I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Party

Excuses

Birthday

" When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling. "

" Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. "

" I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd. "

" I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful. "

" I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. "

" I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer. "

" I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing. "

" I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it. "

" It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?' "

" I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit. "

" Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups. "