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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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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Rules
Hell
Everybody
Joiner

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I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give'em what they never knew they wanted.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
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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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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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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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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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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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Too much good taste can be boring
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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Pleasure is everything.
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