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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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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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If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.
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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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Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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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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Flattery will get you everywhere.
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I didn't discover curves I only uncovered them.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
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I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.
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Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
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Don't ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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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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