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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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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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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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It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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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.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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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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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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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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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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