"No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday."
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"I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way."
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"Never ask a man where he has been."
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"I know so much about men because I went to night school."
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"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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"I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway."
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"all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on."
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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."
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"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."
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"He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces."
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"I started out as Snow White, but then I drifted."
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"Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money."
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"In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood."
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"I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent."
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"The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin."
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"Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week."
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"Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign."
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"Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success."
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"Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!"
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"More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun."
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