Diana Vreeland Quotes
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This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.
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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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This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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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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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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Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
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Pleasure is everything.
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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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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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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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We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.
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The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.
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Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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 don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
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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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Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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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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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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Too much good taste can be boring
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A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?
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