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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

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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
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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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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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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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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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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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 certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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