Birthday Quotes - Page 35

• I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

  Amy Weber

  Twins, Week, Lost

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• My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

  Blair Underwood

  Party, Son, Daddy

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• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  Bobby McFerrin

  San Francisco, Giving, Special

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• My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

  Harold Pinter

  Party, Play, Rubbish

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• 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.

  Jackson Browne

  Father, Guitar, Play

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• There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

  John L. Phillips

  Space, Astronaut

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• The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

  Julianna Margulies

  Husband, People, Stories

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• I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Believe, Moon, Doctors

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• I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

  Marian McPartland

  Party, Years, Trying

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• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Children, Party, Would Be

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• I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

  Mika Brzezinski

  Letting Go, Years, Careers

  "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

  Molly Sims

  Mom, Cake, Scratches

  "Molly Sims: Fab for fall". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2010.

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• The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

  Rick Springfield

  Guitar, Firsts

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• You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

  Robin Gibb

  Beautiful, Loss, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

  Rod Taylor

  Party, Night, August

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• I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Cake, Events, Albums

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• I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

  Henry Rollins

  Creativity, Past, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Regret, Age, Hours

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• Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Men

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Lying, Dark

  "The Complete Works of John Ruskin".

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• Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.

  John Ruskin

  Powerful, Lying, Hands

  "Selections From the Works of John Ruskin".

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• Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

  Bertrand Russell

  Age, Dams, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

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• It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Doors, Dragons, Atheism

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Educational, Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

  Rene Russo

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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