From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
TOM FORDI’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
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I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
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France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.
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If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
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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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It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
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I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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