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" I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday. "

Paulina Porizkova

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" The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession. "

" I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead. "

" The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday. "

" It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. "

" 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. "

" I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar. "

" 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.' "

" I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it. "

" At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful. "

Paulina Porizkova

" I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York. "

" Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.' "

Richard Corliss

" I did not have a normal life. I'd be training when my sister would be at birthday parties and sleepovers. I finished high school by correspondence, basically working two full-time jobs. The last years were very, very tough. But I was willing to do that. It's all about sacrifice. "

Eugenie Bouchard

" If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. "

" May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history. "

Samuel Freeman Miller

" You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. "

" By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet! "

" I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday. "

" 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

" Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children. "

" 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. "

" For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. "

" I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs. "

" I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill. "

" I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I've actually done that. "

" Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. "

" One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over. "

Marianne Williamson

" If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV. "

" I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' "

" If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. "