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Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

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Raquel Welch
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: September 5
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Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
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Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.
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I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love.
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When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.
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As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.
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I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.
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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
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Ive always been a health fanatic.
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I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.
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Im the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like its open season on her.
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I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.
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You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.
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