"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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Selected Quotes of Mae West
"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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"When I‘m good, I‘m very good. But when I‘m bad I‘m better.
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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"To err is human, but it feels divine.
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"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I‘m tired.
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"Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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"A hard man is good to find.
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"A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that‘s subtraction.
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"I‘ve been things and seen places.
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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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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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