| Happy birthday, happy birthday
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| How old are you, how old are you?
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| I’m 32 and I have to lose 20 pounds to be attractive, to be the kind of person
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| I want. |
| This is the year I’m gonna do it.
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| Have you ever promised yourself that before?
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| How did you know? |
| I’ve been on and off diets since I was 18.
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| So, you’ve been making and breaking the same resolution for more than a decade?
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| Well, if you want to put it that way.
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| Let’s face facts. |
| Your approach doesn’t seem to be working.
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| No matter how hard you struggle and strive
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| You never get outta those shoes alive
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| Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
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| All you gonna get is a ticket to ride
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| Happy birthday, happy birthday
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| How old are you, how old are you?
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| I’m 47 years old and still don’t know how to assert myself and get what I want.
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| I just never learned to be aggressive.
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| You can get ahead by cooperating as well as competing.
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| The hell you can. |
| It’s a jungle out there. |
| Kill or be killed.
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| Lack of assertiveness can be a problem. |
| It does not seem to be yours.
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| Look, Mr Good Vibes. |
| I know what my problem is. |
| I’ve had it my whole life.
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| I understand perfectly.
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| No matter how hard you struggle and strive
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| You never get outta those shoes alive
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| Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
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| All you gonna get is a ticket to ride
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| Happy birthday, happy birthday
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| How old are you, how old are you?
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| I’m 23 years old and all my friends tell me I’m talented. |
| I wanna be a really
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| big television or recording star.
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| Do you go out on auditions?
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| How can I? |
| Who’s gonna look after my kid?
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| Can you hire a mother’s helper?
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| Can’t afford it.
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| How about a relative or a neighbor?
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| Oh, I just wouldn’t feel right asking.
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| Perhaps you expect a producer to drive up in a limousine and discover you at the local drugstore?
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| Well, it has happened before.
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| Frankly, my dear, this is nothing but fantasy.
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| No matter how hard you struggle and strive
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| You never get outta those shoes alive
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| Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
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| All you gonna get is a ticket to ride
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| Happy birthday, happy birthday
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| How old are you, how old are you?
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| Your birthday is a good time to take a look at yourself. |
| Be ruthlessly honest.
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| Are you a person who gets things done, or a procrastinator? |
| Can you control
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| your habits? |
| Do you see yourself onjectively or do you require a myth?
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| If you think you’re fooling anyone, you’re only fooling yourself.
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| Now, sir, how old did you say you are today?
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| I just turned 40 and for the last few month I’ve been feeling like it’s all
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| over, as though life had already passed me by. |
| It feels like I’m dying.
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| That’s right. |
| You are dying.
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| What do you mean by that?
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| The fact is, even as we talk your allotted time is slipping away.
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| More of your life is behind you. |
| And that means that less is in front of you.
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| That’s a pretty depressing way to wish a guy happy birthday.
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| Look at it this way, friend. |
| You may be dying, but you still have some time
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| left, so let’s sit down and take stock of where you’ve been and where you’re
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| heading. |
| Life will always appear too short. |
| Only you can make it worthwhile.
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| No matter how hard you struggle and strive
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| You never get outta those shoes alive
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| Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
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| All you gonna get is a ticket to ride
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| Happy birthday, happy birthday
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| How old are you, how old are you?
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| Where there’s a will, there’s a way |