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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
Diana Vreeland
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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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