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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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A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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Dating means two things disillusionment or a racing heart.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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The finest woman that ever walked the streets.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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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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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
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Just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
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I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
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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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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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Some of the wildest men make the best pets.
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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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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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