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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
Actor
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Comedian
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Mary Jane West
Jane West
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Sarcastic

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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
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I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.
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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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Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said I do, and I also wash and iron them. I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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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 used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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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 go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
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Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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I'm a good woman for a bad man.
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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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