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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
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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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Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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No gold-digging for me I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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