If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
TOM FORDI am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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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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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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I think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
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What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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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 don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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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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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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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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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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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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
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The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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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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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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