Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
TOM FORDKeep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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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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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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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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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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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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 understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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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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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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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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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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I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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