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.
TOM FORDYou 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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!”
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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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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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