"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."

West, Mae on Dress
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

West, Mae on Evil
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"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

West, Mae on Evil
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"When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin."

West, Mae on Finance
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"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."

West, Mae on Humor
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"It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."

West, Mae on Laughter
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"I never loved another person the way I loved myself."

West, Mae on Love
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"A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in."

West, Mae on Love
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"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."

West, Mae on Marriage
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"It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men."

West, Mae on Marriage
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"I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign."

West, Mae on Men
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"I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without."

West, Mae on Men
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"Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings."

West, Mae on Men and Women
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"When women go wrong, men go right after them."

West, Mae on Men and Women
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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."

West, Mae on Nudity
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"When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity."

West, Mae on Nudity
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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

West, Mae on Obscurity
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"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

West, Mae on Personality
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"He who hesitates is a damned fool."

West, Mae on Procrastination
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"He who hesitates is last."

West, Mae on Procrastination
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"There are no good girls gone wrong, just bad girls found out."

West, Mae on Scandal
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"I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked."

West, Mae on Sexuality
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"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important."

West, Mae on Censorship
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

West, Mae on Temptation
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office."

West, Mae on Virtue
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"I used to be snow white, but I drifted."

West, Mae on Virtue
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"Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before."

West, Mae on Choice
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