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" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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" I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything. "
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" I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me. "
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" Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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" Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays. "
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" My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day. "
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" A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. "
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" Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do. "
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" Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. "
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" I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
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" A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last. "
Q'orianka Kilcher
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" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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Life
" I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday. "
Ben Platt
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" By the time you're in your 30s, unless somebody makes the god-awful decision to gift you with a cooking class or salsa lessons, it may have been a while since you learnt something new. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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" The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. "
Oprah Winfrey
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" You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house. "
Sarah Hall
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" Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday. "
Lawrence Tierney
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" I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome. "
Mary H.K. Choi
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" As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. "
Mike Wallace
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" I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted. "
Dove Cameron
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" I like working on my birthday, so I always do. "
Abhishek Bachchan
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" I believe that if writers want their readers to care about a character, they have to care themselves. I have to root for a detective who screws up as much as Thorne does, who shares my birthday, my North London stomping ground, and my love of country music, both alt and cheesy. "
Mark Billingham
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" You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' "
Jerry Seinfeld
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" The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday. "
Charles M. Blow
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" My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily. "
Sarah Koenig
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" God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. "
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" I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. "
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" Love the giver more than the gift. "
Brigham Young
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" I always get super confused by the way we look at technology, because since when were all phone calls created equal? It's not like every text is the same or that all texts are human interactions that are compromised. I don't get how conduits somehow dictate sentiment. "
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