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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.

Mae West

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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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I didn't discover curves I only uncovered them.
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Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.
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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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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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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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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.
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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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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Never ask a man where he has been.
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Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
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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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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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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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Tira begins to sing I'm No Angel to him as the screen fades: Baby, I can warm you with this love of mine. I'm No Angel. Aw, let me feel my fingers running through your hair, I can give you kisses. . . .
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