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In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

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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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When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
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Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
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I consider sex a misdemeanor, the more I miss, de meaner I get.
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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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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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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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