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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

Tom Ford

I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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Believe Fashion Myself Need
Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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Believe Life Live Myself
Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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Fingers Make Up Place Sex Woman Yourself
If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
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You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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