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Happy birthday Gwyneth Paltrow! Her top 10 pearls of wisdom

By Will Stroude

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Gwyneth Paltrow turns 44 today (September 27), and to celebrate, we thought we’d share ten of the actress and goop guru’s truly incredible pearls of wisdom from over the years.

Read, process and learn.

1. “I would rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup.”

2. “Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don’t have that many good years left in me.”

3. “I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.”

4. “I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”

5. “I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun… except hot dogs.”

6. “We have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature – all this peppered with really funny jokes. But back in America, I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said, ‘Oh, my God! Are those Juicy jeans that you’re wearing?’ and I thought, I can’t stay here. I have to get back to Europe.”

7. “Sometimes Harvey Weinstein will let me use the Miramax jet if I’m opening a supermarket for him.”

8. “When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.”

9. “One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going, I realised I hadn’t thought of dessert.”

10. “I drank like crazy [when Apple and Moses were babies]. How else could I get through my day?”

Happy birthday, Gwyneth, we love you – even if Martha Stewart isn’t quite so keen.

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