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

Mae West

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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
Jane West
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I’ve been things and I've seen places.
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Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.
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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two that's the meaning of subtraction.
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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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It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.
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Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.
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[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
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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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Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!
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To err is human, but it feels divine.
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