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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
Mae West
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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I like a man what takes his time.
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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
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Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
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Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
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Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.
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You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two that's the meaning of subtraction.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.
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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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