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No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

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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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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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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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More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun.
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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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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March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.
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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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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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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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You are never too old to become younger!
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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
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I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
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