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Diana Vreeland was an influential fashion editor known for her profound impact on the fashion industry. Born on September 29, 1903, and passing away on August 22, 1989, Vreeland served as an editor for both 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vogue' magazines, leading the fashion trends with her unique aesthetic and innovative thinking.

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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.”

Thinking World Want Firsts Weakness First Time

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“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”

Knows Want Very Good Good Life Very Good Life

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“I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit -- which can be created quite easily. In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it -- as if one would ever want to!”

Ifs Want Believe Hard Use Energy Grows Habit Flow Sincerely Energy Flow

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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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“The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.”

Want Home Wanted Hours Party Fashion Drink Best Times Time To Leave

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“This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!”

World Want Mean This World Leopards

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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.”

People Knows Want Giving

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“A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?”

World Want Wells Leopards

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About the Author

Born: September 29, 1903
Died: August 22, 1989
Known for: Editor
Quotes: 142

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