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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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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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I adore artifice. I always have.
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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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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Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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