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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

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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
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I like a man what takes his time.
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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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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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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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A good man is hard to find -- but you'll mostly find him asleep.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
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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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Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.
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Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.
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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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The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.
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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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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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Hiring someone to write your autobiography is like hiring someone to take a bath for you
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I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
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I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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