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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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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?
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I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.
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It's not what you say, but how you say it!
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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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Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.
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Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
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Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
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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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Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
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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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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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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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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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All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.
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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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