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" This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security. "
Art Buchwald
Security
Me
Celebrate
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" I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer. "
George Ezra
Blue
Good
People
" I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday. "
Alan J. Heeger
Birthday
Day
Heart
" For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do. "
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Stars
Birthday
Family
" My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending. "
Kate Christensen
Birthday
Happy
Food
" 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
Night
Me
Friends
" Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church. "
Tara Westover
Fun
Fall
End
" I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough. "
Johnny Vegas
Doing
Me
Good
" Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings. "
Shakira
Small
Old
Success
" Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list! "
Candice Olson
Friends
Parents
Girl
" I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage. "
Sean Combs
Birthday
Me
Picture
" I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. "
Liv Tyler
Age
Nice
Birthday
" I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house. "
Sue Townsend
Children
Birthday
Time
" I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times. "
Lily James
Birthday
Go
London
" People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped. "
Nadine Gordimer
People
Things
Gift
" I remember debating the finer points of flaky pastry with my chicken-pot-pie-obsessed American dad. I remember the divine mix of Thai food, TV dinners, and hearty, homemade goodness that have shaped this palate of mine to this day. I remember all this, but I still Google my husband's birthday. Thank God he's famous. "
Chrissy Teigen
Birthday
Thank God
God
" If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters? "
Andrew Young
Day
King
Birthday
" Let them eat cake. "
Marie Antoinette
Eat
Cake
Birthday
" I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday. "
Dick Gephardt
Law
School
Birthday
" Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work. "
Karl Jaspers
Philosophy
Work
Only
" For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted. "
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Asked
Birthday
Adopted
" 'Robin's Test' is more contemporary than what I normally do. It's about couples going on a camping holiday for a 50th birthday. Two couples go, and then this other couple were going to come, but they've broken up, and so the man from that couple turns up, but with a new girlfriend that nobody likes - and I'm playing that character. "
Julia Davis
Character
Man
Test
" When I retired from the NFL, my son was born on my birthday two weeks later, which is Valentine's Day. Imagine having a son born on your birthday. "
Jim Kelly
Imagine
Son
Two
" 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. "
Brad Garrett
Happiness
Gift
Birthday
" My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party. "
Robert Webb
Kiss
Her
Birthday
" I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations? "
Patti Davis
Think
Birthday
Father
" I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties. "
Cindy Crawford
Mom
Birthday
School
" I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was. "
Tabatha Coffey
Myself
Me
Birthday
" At 91, every day is a birthday. "
Charlotte Rae
Birthday
Day
Every
" I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy. "
Emmy Rossum
Friends
Happy
Me
" I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket. "
Louise Post
Birthday
City
Me