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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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