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Flattery will get you everywhere.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Mary Jane West
Jane West
Flattery
Everywhere

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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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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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Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
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Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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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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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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You are never too old to become younger!
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Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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It's hard to find a good man, but it's good to find a hard one.
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Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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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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Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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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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Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?
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Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.
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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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